Challenges of an aging society : ethical dilemmas, political issues / edited by Rachel A. Pruchno and Michael A. Smyer.

PS UNIKEB - PUAN NORLIDA

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The legal aspects of end-of-life decision making / Nancy Neveloff Dubler -- Assessing competency to make medical decisions at the end of life: clinician and patient issues / Daniel C. Marson -- The ethics of long-term care: recasting the policy discourse / Charles J. Fahey -- Religiosity and spirituality at the end of life: challenges and opportunities / Lucy Feild -- The family and the future: challenges, prospects, and resilience / Norella M. Putney, Vern L. Bengtson, and Melanie A. Wakeman -- Long-term care, feminism, and an ethics of solidarity / Martha B. Holstein -- Aging, generational opposition, and the future of the family / H. Rick Moody -- Minority elders in the United States: implications for public policy / Kyriakos S. Markides and Steven P. Wallace --

Allocating resources for lifelong learning for older adults / Ronald J. Manheimer -- Transforming age-based policies to meet fluid life-course needs / W. Andrew Achenbaum and Thomas R. Cole -- The political paradoxes of thinking outside the life-cycle boxes / Robert B. Hudson -- Is responsibility across generations politically feasible? / Robert H. Binstock -- Social security reform and responsibility across the generations: framing the debate / John B. Williamson -- Setting the agenda for Social Security reform / Eric R. Kingson -- A summary of Saving Social Security: a balanced approach / Peter A. Diamond and Peter R. Orszag -- Assessing the returns from the new Medicare drug benefit / Bruce Stuart -- Prescription drugs and elders in the twenty-first century / Christine E. Bishop.