Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Contributors ix
5. Introduction to Principal Themes and Issues 3
6. General Perspectives
7. On Reaching a New Agenda: Self-Determination and Aging 17
8. Ethics and Aging: Trends and Problems in the Clinical Setting 31
9. Ethical Aspects of Aging: Justice, Freedom, and Responsibility 41
10. Paradigms of Aging: Growth versus Decline 54
11. Cognitive Intervention in Later Life: Philosophical Issues 73
12. The Calculus of Discrimination: Discriminatory Resource Allocation for an Aging Population 84
13. Population Aging and the Economy: Some Issues in Resource Allocation 98
14. Specific Issues
15. The Right to Participate: Ending Discrimination Against the Elderly 127
16. Society and Essentials for Well-Being: Social Policy and the Provision of Care 142
17. Foregoing Treatment: Killing vs. Letting Die and the Issue of Non-feeding 155
18. Foregoing Life-Sustaining Treatment: The Canadian Law Reform Commission and the President’s Commission 172
19. Proxy Consent for Research on the Incompetent Elderly 183
20. Gerontology’s Challenge from Its Research Population: Updating Research Ethics 194
21. Civil Liberties and the Elderly Patient 208
22. Narrative, Perspective, and Aging 215
23. Bibliography
24. Bibliography 225
25. General Index 247
26. Index of Names 253