A World Growing Old
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A World Growing Old

The Coming Health Care Challenges

  1. 190 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

A World Growing Old

The Coming Health Care Challenges

About this book

For much of the developed world, health care for a surging elderly population looms as one of the most daunting problems of the coming decade. In this book, contributors from diverse disciplinary backgrounds and countries discuss resource allocation for the elderly and debate plans for the years ahead. Essays focus on five general issues: the meaning of old age, the goals of medicine and health care for the elderly, the balance between the needs of the young and old, the pressures of other social priorities, and the role of families, especially the burden on women, in long-term care.

In consideration of the difficult moral and practical issues involved, the editors conclude the volume with a special report containing policy recommendations from representatives of eight countries (the United States, Belgium, the Czech Republic, Germany, Hungary, the Netherlands, Sweden, and the United Kingdom). This important volume will be of interest to policymakers and a broad spectrum of health care professionals, as well as to anyone interested in the fate of the elderly or in coming health care challenges.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. Preface
  4. Introduction
  5. How We Care for the Elderly
  6. The Meaning of Old Age: Scenarios for the Future
  7. Aging and the Life Cycle: A Moral Norm?
  8. Life Extension and the Meaning of Life
  9. Will There Be a Scarcity of Resources? The Future Demand for Care by the Elderly
  10. Effects of Population Aging on Health Care Expenditure and Financing: Some Illustrations
  11. Caring for the Elderly: Priorities for an Aging Population
  12. Solidarity with the Elderly and the Allocation of Resources
  13. The Elderly and High-Technology Therapies
  14. The Meaning of Old Age Impeded by Chronic Disease
  15. Family Caregiving for the Elderly: Are There Ways to Meet the Need?
  16. Adult Daughter Caregivers: Philosophical Analysis and Implications for Health Care Policy
  17. Institutional Care of the Elderly: Lessons from Hungary
  18. From Generation to Generation: Why U.S. Health Care Reform Is So Difficult in the Twentieth Century
  19. What Do We Owe the Elderly? Allocating Social and Health Care Resources
  20. Project Participants
  21. Index