Book Review 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, housing, 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 operationalization 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 on society’s standards and patterns of behaviour and combines these to produce a detailed costing of a minimum adequate level of living for differen