Challenges of an aging society : ethical dilemmas, political issues

Pruchno, Rachel. (Added Author). Smyer, Michael A. (Added Author).

Record details

ISBN: 9780801886485 (hardcover : alk. paper)
ISBN: 0801886481 (hardcover : alk. paper)
Physical Description: print
xi, 448 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Publisher: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

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 -- Religiousity 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 --