Add to ORKGincurred considerable criticism because of its contention that age-based health care rationing could become necessary in the future as the baby boom generation aged and retired. That argument was considered to be ageist, discriminatory, and dangerous, and the ensuing debate generated a large number of books and articles. A response is offered to the criticisms, suggesting that we will not be able to evade the problem as easily as some critics have proposed, and that an age-limit proposal should be compared with other unpleasant choices, not with an ideal world
The U.S. has focused attention on the rising costs of health care coincident with the increasing age...
Rising public expectations and health care costs along with demographic ageing raise questions about...
In recent years ageism has received increase international attention. In 2016 the UN dedicated the I...
A response to a critique by Roger WHunt ofmy views on the eventual likely need to use age as a stand...
Objectives: This article seeks to review debates about age-based rationing in health care. Methods: ...
Medicine exists to treat the sick. This statement, though extremely simple, accurately conveys how m...
Age limits, minimum and maximum, and both explicit and ‘covert’, are still used in the National Heal...
New Zealand’s population, like many first world countries, is ‘ageing’. This will place our healthc...
AbstractAt the present moment, one of the debates concerning bioethics is focussed on age as criteri...
Aim Ageism in health care delivery and nursing poses a fundamental threat to health and society. I...
The potentially negative effects of drinking alcohol, smoking tobacco, using illicit drugs, gambling...
This Monograph derives from research undertaken during my appointment as a Visiting Scholar at The P...
ii The term, Ageism, was coinE~d by Robert Butler, M.D., in 1968 and was defined as discrimination a...
Recent disputes over whether older people should pay more for health insurance, or receive lower pri...
The point of departure of this Editorial is the fact that we all are engaged in self-rationing in ou...
The U.S. has focused attention on the rising costs of health care coincident with the increasing age...
Rising public expectations and health care costs along with demographic ageing raise questions about...
In recent years ageism has received increase international attention. In 2016 the UN dedicated the I...
A response to a critique by Roger WHunt ofmy views on the eventual likely need to use age as a stand...
Objectives: This article seeks to review debates about age-based rationing in health care. Methods: ...
Medicine exists to treat the sick. This statement, though extremely simple, accurately conveys how m...
Age limits, minimum and maximum, and both explicit and ‘covert’, are still used in the National Heal...
New Zealand’s population, like many first world countries, is ‘ageing’. This will place our healthc...
AbstractAt the present moment, one of the debates concerning bioethics is focussed on age as criteri...
Aim Ageism in health care delivery and nursing poses a fundamental threat to health and society. I...
The potentially negative effects of drinking alcohol, smoking tobacco, using illicit drugs, gambling...
This Monograph derives from research undertaken during my appointment as a Visiting Scholar at The P...
ii The term, Ageism, was coinE~d by Robert Butler, M.D., in 1968 and was defined as discrimination a...
Recent disputes over whether older people should pay more for health insurance, or receive lower pri...
The point of departure of this Editorial is the fact that we all are engaged in self-rationing in ou...
The U.S. has focused attention on the rising costs of health care coincident with the increasing age...
Rising public expectations and health care costs along with demographic ageing raise questions about...
In recent years ageism has received increase international attention. In 2016 the UN dedicated the I...