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A World Growing Old: The Coming Health Care Challenges (Hastings Center Studies in Ethics)
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Daniel Callahan / Ruud H J Ter Meulen / Eva Topinkova
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For much of the developed world, health care for a surging elderly population looms as one of the most daunting problems of the coming decade. In this book, contributors from diverse disciplinary backgrounds and countries discuss resource allocation for the elderly and debate plans for the years ahead. Essays focus on five general issues: the meaning of old age, the goals of medicine and health care for the elderly, the balance between the needs of the young and old, the pressures of other social priorities, and the role of families, especially the burden on women, in long-term care. In consideration of the difficult moral and practical issues involved, the editors conclude the volume with a special report containing policy recommendations from representatives of eight countries (the United States, Belgium, the Czech Republic, Germany, Hungary, the Netherlands, Sweden, and the United Kingdom). This important volume will be of interest to policymakers and a broad spectrum of health care professionals, as well as to anyone interested in the fate of the elderly or in coming health care challenges.

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title	:	A World Growing Old : The Coming Health Care Challenges Hastings Center Studies in Ethics
author	:	Callahan, Daniel
publisher	:	Georgetown University Press
isbn10 \| asin	:	0878406328
print isbn13	:	9780878406326
ebook isbn13	:	9780585225487
language	:	English
subject	Aged--Medical care--Social aspects, Aged--Medical care--Government policy, Aged--Medical care--Moral and ethical aspects.
publication date	:	1995
lcc	:	RA564.8.W69 1995eb
ddc	:	362.1/9897
subject	:	Aged--Medical care--Social aspects, Aged--Medical care--Government policy, Aged--Medical care--Moral and ethical aspects.

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A World Growing Old

The Coming Health Care Challenges

Page ii

Hastings Center Studies in Ethics

A SERIES EDITED BY Mark J. Hanson and Daniel Callahan

Established in 1969, The Hastings Center, located in Briarcliff Manor, New York, is an independent, nonprofit, and nonpartisan research organization that examines ethical issues in medicine and the life sciences. The work of the Center is mainly carried out through research projects, the publication of the Hastings Center Report and IRB: A Review of Human Subjects Research, and numerous workshops, conferences, lectures, and consultations. The Hastings Center Studies in Ethics is a series intended to bring the ongoing research work of The Hastings Center to a wider audience.

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A World Growing Old

The Coming Health Care Challenges

Edited by Daniel Callahan Ruud H. J. ter Meulen Eva Topinkov

GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY PRESS
WASHINGTON, D.C.

Page iv

Georgetown University Press, Washington, D.C. 20007

Printed in the United States of America

10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1995

THIS VOLUME IS PRINTED ON ACID-FREE OFFSET BOOK PAPER

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-publication Data
A world growing old : the coming health care challenges / edited by
Daniel Callahan, Ruud H. J. ter Meulen, Eva Topinkov.
p. cm.(Hastings Center studies in ethics)
ISBN 0-87840-591-7
1. AgedMedical careSocial aspects. 2. AgedMedical care
Government policy. 3. AgedMedical careMoral and ethical
aspects. I. Callahan, Daniel, 1930 . II. Meulen, R. H. J. ter
(Ruud H. J.), 1952 . III. Topinkov, Eva. IV. Series.
RA564.8.W69 1995
372.1'9897dc20 95-6447

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Contents

Preface

vii

Introduction

Daniel Callahan, Ruud H. J. ter Meulen, and Eva Topinkov

How We Care for the Elderly

Mark J. Hanson

The Meaning of Old Age: Scenarios for the Future

Harry R. Moody

Aging and the Life Cycle: A Moral Norm?

Daniel Callahan

Life Extension and the Meaning of Life

Paul van Tongeren

Will There Be a Scarcity of Resources? The Future Demand for Care by the Elderly

Anneke van den Berg Jeths and Mats Thorslund

Effects of Population Aging on Health Care Expenditure and Financing: Some Illustrations

Reiner Leidl

Caring for the Elderly: Priorities for an Aging Population

Mats Thorslund and Marti G. Parker

Page vi

Solidarity with the Elderly and the Allocation of Resources

Ruud H. J. ter Meulen

The Elderly and High-Technology Therapies

Bryan Jennett

The Meaning of Old Age Impeded by Chronic Disease

Gebhard Allert, Gerlinde Sponholz, Helmut Baitsch, and Frieder Keller

Family Caregiving for the Elderly: Are There Ways to Meet the Need?

Eva Topinkov

106

Adult Daughter Caregivers: Philosophical Analysis and Implications for Health Care Policy

Sarah-Vaughan Brakman

117

Institutional Care of the Elderly: Lessons from Hungary

Bela Blasszauer

127

From Generation to Generation: Why U.S. Health Care Reform Is So Difficult in the Twentieth Century

W. Andrew Achenbaum

137

What Do We Owe the Elderly? Allocating Social and Health Care Resources

Ruud H. J. ter Meulen, Eva Topinkov, and Daniel Callahan

148

Project Participants

169

Index

171

Page vii

Preface

This book is the outcome of a two-year research project entitled "Care for the Elderly: Goals, Resources, Priorities," organized jointly by The Institute for Bioethics, Maastricht, the Netherlands, and The Hastings Center, Briarcliff Manor, N.Y., USA. We would like to acknowledge the generous financial support of the following organizations:

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