Skip to content
Primary Navigation

The Hastings Center

  • Who We Are
    • Mission
    • Team
    • What Is Bioethics?
    • Financials
    • For the Media
    • Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion
  • What We Do
    • Research
    • Hastings Center Report
    • Events
    • Focus Areas
    • Ethics & Human Research
    • Webinars
    • Bioethics Careers & Education
    • Hastings Bioethics Forum
    •  
    • FAQs on Human Genomics
    • Bioethics Briefings
    •  
    • Books by Hastings Scholars
    • Special Reports
    •  
  • Support Us
    • Ways To Give
    • Why We Give
    • Gift Planning
    • Sign up for Updates
    • Contact Us
Search The Hastings Center

Aging

Bioethics Forum Essay

The Place in “Aging in Place”: Housing Equity in Late Life

Most older Americans want to age “in place” – in the community, not an institution. But there's a poor fit between our nation’s housing stock and our aging demographics.
Read The Place in “Aging in Place”: Housing Equity in Late Life
Bioethics Forum Essay

Housing an Aging Society: Five Priorities

While home and neighborhood environments matter to all people, older age brings particular considerations related to housing cost, safety and accessibility, neighborhood livability, links between the home and supportive services,...
Read Housing an Aging Society: Five Priorities
Bioethics Forum Essay

Individuals Declared Brain-Dead Remain Biologically Alive

A remarkable experiment raises anew questions about whether brain-death is really death.
Read Individuals Declared Brain-Dead Remain Biologically Alive
Bioethics Forum Essay

Why I Don’t Support Age-Related Rationing During the Covid Pandemic

Some bioethicists support age-related rationing of ventilators during the Covid-19 pandemic as a way to save the most lives. But that goal might be better realized without strict age cutoffs.
Read Why I Don’t Support Age-Related Rationing During the Covid Pandemic
Bioethics Forum Essay

A Covid-19 Side Effect: Virulent Resurgence of Ageism

Of all the “isms,” ageism is arguably the hardest to address because old age neither a valued stage of life nor an identity that many claim. The coronavirus pandemic may have made that effort even harder.
Read A Covid-19 Side Effect: Virulent Resurgence of Ageism
Bioethics Forum Essay

On Being an Elder in a Pandemic

Do the elderly have special obligations during a pandemic, that is, something more than the duty we all have for hand washing, social distancing, and so on? I believe the answer is, yes, and foremost among these is an obligation for parsimonious use of newly scarce and expensive health care resources.
Read On Being an Elder in a Pandemic
Bioethics Forum Essay

What Dr. Seuss Saw at the Golden Years Clinic

“Improving patient experience” has become the mantra of many health care facilities in a highly competitive and regulated environment. But just what is it about the patient experience that needs...
Read What Dr. Seuss Saw at the Golden Years Clinic
Bioethics Forum Essay
man holding a chipboard and taking notes on it

A Single-Payer Bubble?

In an earlier piece, “Trumping Drug Costs,” I looked at out-of-pocket costs as the pivotal issue with drugs. They can be a particularly heavy burden on the elderly, taking money...
Read A Single-Payer Bubble?
Bioethics Forum Essay
older women holding each others hands

Palliative Care vs. Cancer Research

The death of former first lady Barbara Bush at age 92 was noteworthy in many ways. She was by all accounts smart, sharp and funny, and a fine, helpful wife...
Read Palliative Care vs. Cancer Research
Bioethics Forum Essay

Is Death in Trouble?

Death is beginning to show its age, though I hesitate to even mention that possibility.  With an obviously big ego and its intimidating black cloak and scythe, it has always...
Read Is Death in Trouble?
The Hastings Center
  • Connect:
  • The Hastings Center on Facebook
  • The Hastings Center on Linkedin
  • The Hastings Center on Twitter
  • The Hastings Center on YouTube
  • The Hastings Center on Instagram
  • Send The Hastings Center an Email

Registered 501(c)(3).
EIN: 13-2662222

  • Who We Are
    • Mission
    • Team
    • What Is Bioethics?
    • Financials
    • For the Media
    • Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion
  • What We Do
    • Research
    • Hastings Center Report
    • Events
    • Focus Areas
    • Ethics & Human Research
    • Webinars
    • Bioethics Careers & Education
    • Hastings Bioethics Forum
    •  
    • FAQs on Human Genomics
    • Bioethics Briefings
    •  
    • Books by Hastings Scholars
    • Special Reports
    •  
  • Support Us
    • Ways To Give
    • Why We Give
    • Gift Planning
    • Sign up for Updates
    • Contact Us
STAY CONNECTED WITH THE LATEST DEVELOPMENTS IN HEALTH, TECHNOLOGY, AND ENVIRONMENTAL ETHICS
johnsmith@example.com
Interests
  • Who We Are
    • Back
    • Mission
    • Team
    • What Is Bioethics?
    • Financials
    • For the Media
    • Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion
  • What We Do
    • Back
    • Research
    • Hastings Center Report
    • Events
    • Focus Areas
    • Ethics & Human Research
    • Webinars
    • Bioethics Careers & Education
    • Hastings Bioethics Forum
    •  
    • FAQs on Human Genomics
    • Bioethics Briefings
    •  
    • Books by Hastings Scholars
    • Special Reports
    •  
  • Support Us
    • Back
    • Ways To Give
    • Why We Give
    • Gift Planning
    • Sign up for Updates
    • Contact Us
  •  
  • Donate Now
  •  
  • Facebook
  • Linkedin
  • Twitter
  • YouTube
  • Instagram
  • Email Us
  •  
  • Events
    Upcoming Events
    Previous Events
  • Receive Our Newsletter

  •  
  • For the Media
  • Terms of Use
  • Sitemap