Dignity and Old Age
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Dignity and Old Age

Rose Dobrof, Robert Disch, Harry R Moody

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Rose Dobrof, Robert Disch, Harry R Moody

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Open up Dignity and Old Age, and you'll find a wealth of thoughtful suggestions for how you and others can gain more respect and admiration for your relatives, neighbors, and patients who are in the latter stages of life. You'll examine the word "dignity" as it relates to the world's elderly population to the fullest and most challenging extent, taking into account cross-cultural, religious, and even literary influences. Throughout this provoking and thorough examination, you'll tackle some tough questions, all of which will equip you with the theoretical and practical know-how needed to evoke change and preserve honorable relations with the elderly persons in your professional and personal relationships. The manner in which Dignity and Old Age will help you grow in your relationships with elderly people is twofold--ideally and practically. You'll begin with a revitalizing discussion of concepts that revolve around dignity and the elderly, and from there you'll move into the sphere of active practice, gleaning a wide variety of ways you can enhance your affairs with the elderly in health care, social services, government, and retirement entitlements and benefits. Specifically, you'll find positive approaches in these and other areas:

  • the dignity in old age
  • the true meaning of "Quality of Life" in old age
  • achieving respect for ethnic elders as a health care provider
  • bringing spirituality and community together in the last stage of life
  • forming a philanthropic, caring partnership between government and the elderly In this insightful volume, you'll take an important step forward in creating a more dignified quality of life for the world's elderly--today's and tomorrow's. Overall, you'll gain the variety of perspectives necessary to ensure that everyone you come in contact with in casual, legal, leisure, and professional spheres will see you care enough to be concerned with the ideas and practices contained in Dignity and Old Age.

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Publisher
Routledge
Year
2013
ISBN
9781317844600
Index
Addams, J., 150
Addiction, 104-107
Affluence-testing, 143-144
African Americans
care provider respect for, 64-66
grandparents’ influence on children, 1-7
religion in identity, 57
survivorship, 65
Age-based entitlements, 20-23. See also Means-tested entitlements
Age-integrated society, 18-19
Age-irrelevant society, 18-19
Agency, ethics of, 115-118
Age-segregated service systems, 21-22
Alcoholics Anonymous, 105-107
“Allegory of the Cave” (Plato), 94-95
Alternative medicine, 100-101
Altruism, 150-154
Alzheimer’s patients. See Dementia
American Indians, 66
Andersen, E., 159
Assisted suicide. See Physician-assisted suicide
Authors. See Narrative redemption for aging male writers
Autonomy
community and spirituality in, 87-89
cultural issues, 63-64, 67
in dignity, 29-30, 31-33
vs. paternalism, 111-127
in Alzheimer’s, 124-127
courtesy as positive liberty, 122-124
ethical arguments, 113-118
lifespan perspective, 118-121
Bearon, L. B., 41
Bible. See Judeo-Christian tradition
Bismarck, 162
Bridges, Ruby, 1-7
Cambodian-Americans, 62, 63
Canada, 160
Cancer, 97-102
Care providers
compassion of, 101-102
diversity of, 60-61
education in treating others with dignity, 50-51
motivation for treating old with dignity, 73-75
paternalism vs. autonomy, 124-127
respecting ethnic elders, 53-69
aging and ethnicity, 56-59
bi-cultural aging, 61-64
diversity issues, 59-61
interactional persp...

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