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AGEING AND RESOURCE ALLOCATION

Daniel Callahan, Rudd H. J. ter Meulen and Eva Topkinkova (eds): A World Growing Old: The Coming Health Care Challenges. Georgetown University Press, Washington, 1995, 175 pp. ISBN 0 878 40576 3.

MALVIN SCHECHTER a1, HAROLD L. SHEPPARD a2, ALAN MAYNARD a3, ROBERT H. BINSTOCK a4, STEPHEN G. POST a5, ANTHONY M. WARNES a6 and DANIEL CALLAHAN a7
a1 Henry L. Schwartz Department of Geriatrics and Adult Development, The Mount Sinai School of Medicine, City University of New York
a2 Department of Gerontology, University of South Florida, Tampa
a3 Nuffield Provincial Hospitals Trust, London
a4 Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio
a5 Center for Biomedical Ethics, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio
a6 Department of Health Care for Elderly People, University of Sheffield
a7 The Hastings Center, Briarcliff Manor, New York

Abstract

A geriatrician's perspective

The problem and its roots

Who shall have when all will die?

RESOURCE ALLOCATION AND SOCIETAL RESPONSES TO OLD AGE

Special Issue of Ageing and Society, Volume 15 part 2, June 1995

Commentaries:

1.) And a Few Pinches of Politics and Economics

2.) The case of Alzheimer disease

3.) Professional and political influence on resource allocation for older people

Reply to Commentaries:

Facts, Values, Ideologies and Ageing