The Dependent Elderly

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Hardcover | 2 November 1992

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A distinguished team of contributors from the fields of medicine, philosophy and law address some of the issues which arise over the provision of care for dependent elderly patients. Some of the chapters are concerned with the challenge of achieving good quality medical care, the chronic inadequacies of policy making in the UK context, and the prospects for improvement in the medium term. Other chapters look at some of the threats to dependent elderly patients posed by longer-term social and ideological trends which find expression in proposals for age-limits to health care, advocacy of living wills and euthanasia, arguments for withdrawing tube-feeding from certain categories of patient, and certain proposals for resource allocation. This interdisciplinary volume will have a wide appeal to those involved in care of the dependent elderly, to health policy analysts and health care economists, and to bioethicists.

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From the hardback review: '... an excellent new book on the subject ... informative and challenging ... deserves careful reading and reflection ... I warmly recommend this book.' Bernadette Tobin, Bioethics Outlook From the hardback review: '... a fair amount of food for thought ... a useful collection of contributions to several debates.' Journal of Medical Ethics

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List of contributors
Introduction	p. 1
Difficult choices in treating and feeding the debilitated elderly	p. 11
The American debate about artificial nutrition and hydration	p. 28
Reflections on Horan and Boyle	p. 47
The Living Will: the ethical framework of a recent report	p. 53
Some reflections on euthanasia in The Netherlands	p. 70
Is there a policy for the elderly needing long-term care?	p. 101
Is it possible to provide good quality long-term care without unfair discrimination?	p. 114
The prospects for long-term care: current policy and realistic alternatives	p. 123
What is required for good quality in long-term care of the elderly?	p. 140
Should age make a difference in health care entitlement?	p. 147
Economic devices and ethical pitfalls: quality of life, the distribution of resources and the needs of the elderly	p. 158
The Aged: non-persons, human dignity and justice	p. 181
Economics, justice and the value of life: concluding remarks	p. 189
Index	p. 199
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