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Increasing longevity
— medical, social and political implications | | Author(s) | Raymond Tallis |
| Corporate Author | Royal College of Physicians of London |
| Publisher | Royal College of Physicians of London, London, 1998 |
| Pages | 138 pp |
| Source | Royal College of Physicians of London, 11 St Andrews Place, London NW1 4LE. |
| Keywords | Longevity ; Demography ; Health services ; Grant allocation ; Social ethics ; Social economics ; Doctors ; Conference proceedings. |
| Annotation | This book contains the paper presented at a conference of the Royal College of Physicians in December 1996, which discussed the medical, social and political implications of rapid population ageing and increasing longevity. Topics covered include the following: recent and future growth of the older population in the United Kingdom (UK); ageing, ill health and disability; economic implications of increasing longevity; advances in understanding the concept of biological ageing; new technology and the older patient; priority setting in health care; age-relative moral claims; ageing in developing countries; intergenerational equity; research on medicine and older age; genetics and human longevity; and the medical response to an ageing society. (AKM). |
| Accession Number | CPA-980518402 B |
| Classmark | BGA: S8: L: QCG: TQ: W4: QT2: 6M |
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