Handbook on Ethical Issues in Aging

Johnson addresses ethical issues in aging in a variety of contextsthe social cultural environment physical health care mental health care social health care legal care and spiritual care. Because long-term aging has created a new generation of older adults some new issues are emerging which need to be addressed from an ethical perspectiveelder abuse physician assisted suicide dementia intergenerational equity guardianship and living wills. A wide range of experts including physicians philosophers lawyers social workers nurses sociologists public health persons theologians historians and ethicists share their insights on the ethical issues and dilemmas older adults in American society are facing or are likely to face over the life course. Of interest to undergraduate and graduate faculty and students in sociology social work and social services practitioners policymakers and academic and professional libraries.