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Is America Exporting Another New Social Idea?
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AbstractThe focus in the United States on ‘setting limits’ to the provision of such services as health care for old people may be spreading to Europe. This article points up the empirical deficiencies in some of the unexamined assumptions in such proposals, especially the belief that an inordinate share of medical expenditures occur in the final weeks or months of elderly patients. The setting-limits doctrine is viewed as a subset of broader socio-political-ideological thrusts aimed at (or resulting in) anti-elderly, intergenerational-conflict policy proposals. Such proposals should be evaluated in terms of their social constructionist, partially contrived, and historically distorted bases. Apocalyptic gerontology needs to be weighed in terms of its moral implications.
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Title: Is America Exporting Another New Social Idea?
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AbstractThe focus in the United States on ‘setting limits’ to the provision of such services as health care for old people may be spreading to Europe.
This article points up the empirical deficiencies in some of the unexamined assumptions in such proposals, especially the belief that an inordinate share of medical expenditures occur in the final weeks or months of elderly patients.
The setting-limits doctrine is viewed as a subset of broader socio-political-ideological thrusts aimed at (or resulting in) anti-elderly, intergenerational-conflict policy proposals.
Such proposals should be evaluated in terms of their social constructionist, partially contrived, and historically distorted bases.
Apocalyptic gerontology needs to be weighed in terms of its moral implications.
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