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Why I Don’t Support Age-Related Rationing During the Covid Pandemic
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A Covid-19 Side Effect: Virulent Resurgence of Ageism
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On Being an Elder in a Pandemic
Read the PostBioethics Forum EssayDo 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 the Post - Hastings Center News
Watch the Livestream: Aging in [A] Place Symposium
Read the PostHastings Center NewsPublic discussion and policy often cite “aging in place” as a way to improve quality of life and reduce costs of older people. However, in part because of socioeconomic differences and structural inequalities, not all older adults can live in or move to age-supportive communities, neighborhoods, or homes that match their values and needs.These challenges are the focus of a public event cosponsored by The Hastings Center and the Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies.Read the Post - Hastings Center News
A Preview of Our New Research Agenda: Ethics of Population Aging
Read the PostHastings Center NewsIn a new essay in the Health Affairs Blog Grantswatch, Hastings Center research scholar Nancy Berlinger and president Mildred Z. Solomon offer a glimpse of the Center’s major new research agenda on the ethics of population aging, with a focus on the precarity of older adults, questions of justice, and issues of personal choice. The work is made possible by a generous grant to The Hastings Center from The Robert W. Wilson Charitable Trust as part of its visionary support for the Center’s research and public engagement on ethical challenges facing aging societies.Read the Post - Hastings Center News
Dementia and the Ethics of Choosing When to Die
Read the PostHastings Center NewsAs the American population ages and dementia is on the rise, The Hastings Center is embarking on pathbreaking research to explore foundational questions associated with the dementia trajectory and the concerns of persons facing this terminal condition. This new research is made possible by a major g...Read the Post - Bioethics Forum Essay
What Dr. Seuss Saw at the Golden Years Clinic
Read the PostBioethics Forum Essay“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 to be improved? Will better food and gift bags do the trick? Or are more basic changes required?Read the Post - Hastings Center News
Envisioning “Good Care at Home” for Older Adults in an Aging Society
Read the PostHastings Center NewsHow should we think about the ethics of everyday interpersonal relationships focused on giving and receiving care? When home is also a care setting, how can family members and other caregivers best provide care to older adults? What protections are needed for migrant workers who provide care in the h...Read the Post - Hastings Center News
Hastings Scholar Examines the Financial Burden of Long-Term Care
Read the PostHastings Center NewsNearly 11 million Americans use long-term care for help with daily tasks such as bathing and preparing meals, and yet few have private long-term care insurance. Thus, most of the cost of this care, which averages $140,000 a year, falls on family members and Medicaid. The scope of the problem and what...Read the Post - Bioethics Forum Essay
A Single-Payer Bubble?
Read the PostBioethics Forum EssayIn 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 from their savings and a large bite of their Social Security income. Along the way, I also looked at out-of-pocket medi...Read the Post - Hastings Center News
What Makes a Good Life Late in Life? Nobel Prize Winner and Leading Bioethicist Offer Insights
Read the PostHastings Center NewsEric Kandel, winner of the 2000 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine who has done groundbreaking work on the molecular mechanisms of memory, spoke at The Hastings Center on May 22 about the differences between normal age-related memory loss and Alzheimer’s disease, as well as the possibility that ...Read the Post - Hastings Center News
What Does It Mean to be a Good Citizen in an Aging Society?
Read the PostHastings Center NewsThat question was the focus of “Long Term Care in New York City, circa 2030,” a panel discussion hosted by the New York City Bar Association on May 3 that included Hastings research scholar Nancy Berlinger. In 2030, one million New Yorkers will be age 65 or older. This trend is consistent worl...Read the Post - Bioethics Forum Essay
Palliative Care vs. Cancer Research
Read the PostBioethics Forum EssayThe 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 to one president and mother to another. Her death last week after a long illness, with her husband at her side, was a model of palliative care su...Read the Post - Hastings Center News
What Do We Owe Frail Older People?
Read the PostHastings Center NewsA woman juggles caring for her aged father at home and going to work. A volunteer cares for an 83-year-old man who lives alone and wonders why the man’s son doesn’t take more of an interest. Staff members at a nursing home, discussing a patient with dementia who hits staff members, wonder if it...Read the Post