Aging

by Weisstub, David N.; Thomasma, David C.; Gauthier, Serge; Tomossy, George F.

• ISBN13: 9781402001826
• ISBN10: 1402001827
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-12-01
• Publisher: Kluwer Academic Pub

Summary

Decisions at the End of Life is the last volume in a trilogy on Aging conceived for the International Library of Ethics, Law, and the New Medicine. Leading scholars from a range of disciplines examine some of the most emotive topics in the study of aging: assessing quality of life, improving end-of-life care, palliative care, euthanasia, and consent to research.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. vii
Acknowledgments	p. xi
Contributors	p. xiii
Quality of Life
How we think (deeply but with limits) about quality of life: The necessity of wisdom for aging	p. 1
Ethics and quality of life in the elderly	p. 21
Palliative Care
Palliative care: A weak link in the chain of civilized life	p. 31
Assisted Death
Assisted death in the Netherlands and its relationship with age	p. 49
Why euthanasia should not be legalized: A reflection on the Dutch experiment	p. 67
Managing death: End-of-life charades and decisions	p. 91
Challenges and dilemmas in the "aging and euthanasia" policy cocktail	p. 107
Suicide
End-of-life decisions in terminal illness: A psychiatric perspective	p. 139
Suicide: Implications for an aging society	p. 155
Research Ethics
Research on elderly subjects: Striking the right balance	p. 171
Community consent for research on the impaired elderly	p. 207
Regulating ethical research involving cognitively impaired elderly subjects: Canada as a case study	p. 227
Index	p. 255
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