Book Reviews Minimum Income for Healthy Living: Older People. Morris J.,

established for the first time a universal right to a standard of living adequate to maintaining health and well-being, including adequate food, clothing, hous-ing, medical care, social services and social protection. In some senses, the Minimum Income for Healthy Living (MIHL) methodology developed by Professor Morris and colleagues represents a rare attempt to provide a credible and scientifically grounded oper-ationalization and measurement of access to these basic rights. Put more simply, MIHL and the wider budget standards methodology of which it is part seeks to address in a scientific way the age-old question of ‘how much is enough?’ The budget standards approach brings together social science, statistical and physiological data o