Titlebook: Ethics, Health Policy and (Anti-) Aging: Mixed Blessings; Maartje Schermer,Wim Pinxten Book 2013 Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht

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On Old Age—Impressions of a Geriatriciantrician in nursing homes and chronic care facilities in Amsterdam during 28 years. This means that I have only seen the less attractive sides of old age, because obviously most elderly people do not end up in a nursing home or chronic care facility. But in my work I did not only have to deal with my

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Former Wishes and Current Desiresh dementia or through other diseases that affect cognitive functioning. Not everybody ages successfully, after all. Demographic estimations show that with the increase of life expectancy and of the percentage of elderly people in Western societies, the prevalence of dementia and other age related di

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Imagining Good Agingiff of humour à la Maurice Chevalier, who said: “Old age isn’t so bad when you consider the alternative”? The combination ‘good aging’ seems to reveal a cynical ethical attitude: Good aging is not a subject for ethics.

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Justice and the Elderlycular segment of society, or a specific dimension is singled out—often in response to a perceived lacuna—as in work on gender justice or justice and the family (e.g. Kirp et al. 1986; Robeyns 2007). When it comes to the elderly, however, broad perspectives and wider visions are nowhere to be seen. A

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