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| Material Type: | Internet resource |
|---|---|
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Rachel Pruchno; Michael A Smyer |
| ISBN: | 9780801886485 0801886481 |
| OCLC Number: | 76820914 |
| Description: | xi, 448 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | The legal aspects of end-of-life decision making / Nancy Neveloff Dubler -- Assessing competency to make medical decisions at the end of life: clinician and patient issues / Daniel C. Marson -- The ethics of long-term care: recasting the policy discourse / Charles J. Fahey -- Religiosity and spirituality at the end of life: challenges and opportunities / Lucy Feild -- The family and the future: challenges, prospects, and resilience / Norella M. Putney, Vern L. Bengtson, and Melanie A. Wakeman -- Long-term care, feminism, and an ethics of solidarity / Martha B. Holstein -- Aging, generational opposition, and the future of the family / H. Rick Moody -- Minority elders in the United States: implications for public policy / Kyriakos S. Markides and Steven P. Wallace. Allocating resources for lifelong learning for older adults / Ronald J. Manheimer -- Transforming age-based policies to meet fluid life-course needs / W. Andrew Achenbaum and Thomas R. Cole -- The political paradoxes of thinking outside the life-cycle boxes / Robert B. Hudson -- Is responsibility across generations politically feasible? / Robert H. Binstock -- Social security reform and responsibility across the generations: framing the debate / John B. Williamson -- Setting the agenda for Social Security reform / Eric R. Kingson -- A summary of Saving Social Security: a balanced approach / Peter A. Diamond and Peter R. Orszag -- Assessing the returns from the new Medicare drug benefit / Bruce Stuart -- Prescription drugs and elders in the twenty-first century / Christine E. Bishop. |
| Responsibility: | edited by Rachel A. Pruchno and Michael A. Smyer. |
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An excellent book... Will be exceedingly helpful to clinicians and nonclinicians who are involved in the development of public policy. JAMA 2008 Easily readable and well referenced... It is an excellent, well-thought-out resource for where the U.S. is on the issue of gerontology as it relates to ethics and public policy... Highly recommended. Choice 2008 A good survey of many aging society issues. Future Survey 2007 Some of the individual chapters are superb... contains some interesting original material as well as a useful synthesis of the literature... There is something in it for almost everyone. New England Journal of Medicine 2008 This book is well edited and presented, which makes reading it quite straightforward, even while taking on at times some complex issues. -- Karen Le Ball Age and Ageing 2008 This book... is unique in that it explores issues and challenges at hand with the current aging society through an 'ethical' lens, and brings together experts in a wide range of fields covering sociobiology, social work, economics, public policy, theology, public health, bioethics, nursing and neurology -- Erica Yoonkyung Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare 2009 There is something for everyone in this collection -- John Bond Aging and Society 2008 It is a compilation of multiple thought-provoking analyses of the status of elderly and the aging, and includes current and future ramifications. -- Susan Wegener Inside GCM 2008 Read more...
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