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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.

Sociology of health --- Age group sociology --- Social policy and particular groups --- Health Services for the Aged --- Quality of Life --- Older people --- Personnes âgées --- Medical care --- Long-term care --- Soins médicaux --- Soins de longue durée --- Health Services for the Aged. --- Aged. --- Long-Term Care. --- Quality of Life. --- Frail elderly --- -#GBIB:CBMER --- Elderly, Frail --- Frail older people --- Life Qualities --- Life Quality --- Life Style --- Cost of Illness --- Karnofsky Performance Status --- Value of Life --- Elderly --- Geriatrics --- Longevity --- Health Services for Aged --- Health Services for the Elderly --- Health Services, Geriatric --- Geriatric Health Services --- Geriatric Health Service --- Health Service, Geriatric --- Service, Geriatric Health --- Services, Geriatric Health --- Aged --- Frail Elderly --- Health-Related Quality Of Life --- Health Related Quality Of Life --- Personnes âgées --- Soins médicaux --- Soins de longue durée --- Long-Term Care --- #GBIB:CBMER --- HRQOL --- Care, Long-Term --- Long Term Care --- Frail elderly - Medical care. --- Health Sciences --- General and Others --- Older frail people --- Older people with disabilities --- Medical care.