A World Growing Old: The Coming Health Care Challenges

by Daniel Callahan, Eva Topinkova, R.H.J. ter Meulen

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0878406328
• ISBN13: 9780878406326
• Release Date: August 1996
• Publisher: Georgetown University Press
• Length: 190 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher