Setting Limits: A Response
- 1 June 1994
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in The Gerontologist
- Vol. 34 (3) , 393-398
- https://doi.org/10.1093/geront/34.3.393
Abstract
Setting Limits: Medical Goals in an Aging Society was published in 1987, and immediately incurred considerable criticism because of its contention that age-based health care rationingh could become necessary in the future as the baby boom generation aged and retired. Thatargument was considered to be ageist, discriminatory, and dangerous, and the ensuing debateh generated a large number of books and articles. A response is offered to the criticisms, suggesting that we will not be able to evade the problem as easily as some criticsh-have proposed, and that an age-limit proposal should be compared with otherh-unpleasant choices, not with an ideal world.Keywords
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