Aging: Caring for Our Elders

✍ Scribed by G. Clare Wenger (auth.), David N. Weisstub, David C. Thomasma, Serge Gauthier, George F. Tomossy (eds.)

Publisher: Springer Netherlands
Year: 2001
Tongue: English
Leaves: 249
Series: International Library of Ethics, Law, and the New Medicine 11
Edition: 1
Category: Library

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

Caring for Our Elders is the second of three volumes on Aging conceived for the International Library of Ethics, Law, and the NewMedicine. Leading scholars from a range of disciplines address some of the major issues in elder care facing modern nations: familial duties of care, the future of social welfare systems, housing, dementia, abuse and neglect.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xvi
Across the Generations....Pages 1-18
Family Caregiving....Pages 19-28
Family Care for Frail Elders and Norms of Caregiver Well-Being at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century....Pages 29-47
Care for Elderly People in Sweden....Pages 49-63
Financing Long-Term Care in the United States....Pages 65-82
The Role of the Government and the Family in Taking Care of the Frail Elderly....Pages 83-105
Appropriate Housing for the Elderly of the United States....Pages 107-121
Nursing Work, Housekeeping Issues, and the Moral Geography of Home Care....Pages 123-137
The Dilemma of Prolonged Engagement....Pages 139-163
Community Mental Health Services for Older Adults in the United States....Pages 165-175
Dementia Care Ethics....Pages 177-190
Decision-Making in Social and Medical Services for Patients with Dementia in Japan....Pages 191-202
The Abuse and Neglect of the Elderly....Pages 203-218
Aging, Homelessness and the Law....Pages 219-235
Back Matter....Pages 237-243

✦ Subjects

Theory of Medicine/Bioethics; Aging; Medical Law; Microeconomics

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