Elder Choice
- 1 January 1993
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in American Journal of Law & Medicine
- Vol. 19 (3) , 233-283
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0098858800006171
Abstract
Thanks to medical technology, thousands of elderly patients suffer the agony of debility, from which many of them would choose to be released if they knew how to effect a choice. Prolonging their metabolism is unfair to them and to their families, and strains the nation's overburdened health care resources. Medical directives offer elderly patients avenues of escape from unwanted treatment. Health care for the aged should include informed access to these means of choice.Keywords
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