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Netwerken in de gerontologie : synthese van onderzoeksprojecten.

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Sinds bijna 20 jaar laten de Federale Diensten voor Wetenschappelijke, Technische en Culturele aangelegenheden, in opdracht van de overheid, onderzoek uitvoeren over verschillende aspecten van de veroudering en over problemen van een verouderende bevolking. Dit boek brengt verslag uit van een aantal onderzoekingen over de "gerontologische netwerken". Er wordt ingegaan op de karakteristieken van het netwerk van oudere individuen. Hierbij wordt ook aandacht besteed aan het sociaal-maatschappelijk kader waarbinnen deze netwerken evolueren.

Ethics in an aging society.
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ISBN: 0801853974 Year: 1996 Publisher: Baltimore Johns Hopkins university press

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Recent years have seen a growing interest in the questions of ethics and aging. Advances in medical technology have created dilemmas for physicians, nurses, and other health care professionals over such questions as the allocation of resources and a patient's "right to die." At the same time, the aging of the American population raises concerns about social policies that involve the role of government. In Ethics in an Aging Society Harry R. Moody examines both the clinical and the policy issues that center around aging. Moody pays special attention to the ethical problems associated with two particularly timely concerns-Alzheimer's disease and the increasingly controversial issue of "rational suicide" for reasons of age. He also focuses on the rights of patients in long-term care and on the question of justice between generations (Are older patients using more than their "fair share" of scarce health care dollars?).

Choosing who's to live : ethics and aging.
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ISBN: 0252065417 0252022408 Year: 1996 Publisher: Urbana University of Illinois Press

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The population is rapidly aging while access to proper and affordable medical treatment is becoming more and more limited. This impasse challenges us to make ethical decisions regarding the rationing of health care. Arguing that de facto rationing is already taking place due to economic necessity and that proper management of this rationing is essential to the fair and ethical treatment of all seeking care, Choosing Who's to Live directly addresses one of the most challenging moral questions of our day. Appearing in the wake of increasing awareness of health care reform, this volume identifies four compelling arguments for managed health care rationing: the number of citizens over age eighty-five will increase 500 percent by the year 2040; current baby boomers could live longer than today's elderly by seven to fifteen years; new medical technologies are appearing every day; and the ratio of workers to retirees will be 1:4 in forty years instead of the current 1:2.5.In this volume, six leading scholars take the discussion of rationing health care beyond the simple idea of withholding government-funded, life-saving treatment from the very old to a more ethical, effective treatment plan for all.

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