Advances in technology have raised new ethical questions in
medicine, concern for pollution has encouraged the growth of
"environmental ethics", and the problems of corporate America have
sparked more questions about "business ethics". With the population
of older persons increasing every year and their social problems
becoming ever more acute, it's now time for "geroethics", which
assesses the impact of societal values on elders and how the aged
may respond to these values. The issues are urgent and compelling:
the changing face of elder America, dependence on others for care,
the corporate response to agism, the healthcare crisis, how to take
charge of one's life and bring meaning to it, living longer verses
living better, coping with disabilities, the psychological aspects
of aging, and so many others. Ethics embraces concepts of rights
and privileges, duties and obligations, choices and their outcomes.
In Geroethics: A New Vision of Growing Old in America author Gerald
A. Larue shows how social values impact on elders in the United
States and how older persons, and those who advocate on their
behalf, may respond to the attitudes and actions of others. Dreams
and goals, rights and responsibilities, self-respect and personal
dignity shouldn't fade with the passing of youth. This latest
addition to the Golden Age series offers the elderly and those who
care for them a vibrant new look at the challenges of aging: the
role elders can and do play in shaping and changing society's views
of its oldest members, regaining control of important life choices,
and the struggle to live a meaningful and independent existence
free of anxiety, fear, and uncertainty. Included are chapters
onstereotypes, identifying the elderly, human rights, agism, the
ethics of survival, elder power, elder abuse, fear of aging, caring
for elders, health care, dementia, loneliness, death and dying, and
much more.
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