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Age-based health care allocation as a wedge separating the person from the patient and commodifying medicine
Author(s)Katrina A Bramstedt
Journal titleReviews in Clinical Gerontology, vol 11, no 2, May 2001
Pagespp 185-188
KeywordsGrant allocation ; Ageism.
AnnotationThe author contends that ageist limits have the effect of slicing a patient in half. The "medical half" contains the diagnosis, prognosis, vital signs and other physiological matters. The "other" half contains contextual and personal matters such as treatment preferences, personal beliefs, religious and cultural beliefs, and social dynamics. Ageism, as practised by limiting health care based on a person's chronological age profoundly denies a health care role for these components in the "other" half, because it renders their value as zero when the specified age limit is reached. (RH).
Accession NumberCPA-011115226 A
ClassmarkQCG: B:TOB

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