A World Growing Old: The Coming Health Care Challenges
(Part of the Hastings Center Studies in Ethics Series)
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Book Overview
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...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0878406328
ISBN13:9780878406326
Release Date:August 1996
Publisher:Georgetown University Press
Length:190 Pages
Weight:0.70 lbs.
Dimensions:0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"
Grade Range:Postsecondary and higher
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