Challenges of an aging society
Subtitle: ethical dilemmas, political issues
By: edited by Rachel A. Pruchno and Michael A. Smyer.
Contributors: Pruchno, Rachel.; Smyer, Michael A.
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Baltimore
Language: eng
Number of pages: 448
ISBN-13: 9780801886485
Subjects: Aging -- Moral and ethical aspects.; Aging -- Political aspects.; Older people -- Health and hygiene -- Social aspects.; Medical ethics.; Medical policy.; Aged.; Bioethical Issues.; Long-Term Care -- ethics.; Public Policy.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: value: The legal aspects of end-of-life decision making / Nancy Neveloff Dubler; value: Assessing competency to make medical decisions at the end of life: clinician and patient issues / Daniel C. Marson; value: The ethics of long-term care: recasting the policy discourse / Charles J. Fahey; value: Religiousity and spirituality at the end of life: challenges and opportunities / Lucy Feild; value: The family and the future: challenges, prospects, and resilience / Norella M. Putney, Vern L. Bengtson, and Melanie A. Wakeman; value: Long-term care, feminism, and an ethics of solidarity / Martha B. Holstein; value: Aging, generational opposition, and the future of the family / H. Rick Moody; value: Minority elders in the United States: implications for public policy / Kyriakos S. Markides and Steven P. Wallace; value: Allocating resources for lifelong learning for older adults / Ronald J. Manheimer; value: Transforming age-based policies to meet fluid life-course needs / W. Andrew Achenbaum and Thomas R. Cole; value: The political paradoxes of thinking outside the life-cycle boxes / Robert B. Hudson; value: Is responsibility across generations politically feasible? / Robert H. Binstock; value: Social security reform and responsibility across the generations: framing the debate / John B. Williamson; value: Setting the agenda for Social Security reform / Eric R. Kingson; value: A summary of Saving Social Security: a balanced approach / Peter A. Diamond and Peter R. Orszag; value: Assessing the returns from the new Medicare drug benefit / Bruce Stuart; value: Prescription drugs and elders in the twenty-first century / Christine E. Bishop.