TY - BOOK ID - 1821623 TI - The Dependent elderly : autonomy, justice, and quality of care PY - 1992 SN - 0521415314 0521061253 0511527063 PB - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Sociology of health KW - Age group sociology KW - Social policy and particular groups KW - Health Services for the Aged KW - Quality of Life KW - Older people KW - Personnes âgées KW - Medical care KW - Long-term care KW - Soins médicaux KW - Soins de longue durée KW - Health Services for the Aged. KW - Aged. KW - Long-Term Care. KW - Quality of Life. KW - Frail elderly KW - -#GBIB:CBMER KW - Elderly, Frail KW - Frail older people KW - Life Qualities KW - Life Quality KW - Life Style KW - Cost of Illness KW - Karnofsky Performance Status KW - Value of Life KW - Elderly KW - Geriatrics KW - Longevity KW - Health Services for Aged KW - Health Services for the Elderly KW - Health Services, Geriatric KW - Geriatric Health Services KW - Geriatric Health Service KW - Health Service, Geriatric KW - Service, Geriatric Health KW - Services, Geriatric Health KW - Aged KW - Frail Elderly KW - Health-Related Quality Of Life KW - Health Related Quality Of Life KW - Personnes âgées KW - Soins médicaux KW - Soins de longue durée KW - Long-Term Care KW - #GBIB:CBMER KW - HRQOL KW - Care, Long-Term KW - Long Term Care KW - Frail elderly - Medical care. KW - Health Sciences KW - General and Others KW - Older frail people KW - Older people with disabilities KW - Medical care. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:1821623 AB - 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. ER -