Title | Longevity and Quality of Life [electronic resource] : Opportunities and Challenges / edited by Robert N. Butler, Claude Jasmin |
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Imprint | Boston, MA : Springer US : Imprint: Springer, 2000 |
Connect to | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-4249-0 |
Descript | XIII, 321 p. online resource |
Introductions: Challenges and Opportunities -- A Malthusian Revolution -- A Global Approach -- Longevity and Womenโs Health -- Opening Remarks -- Worldwide Revolution in Longevity and Quality of Life -- Global Aspects of Longevity -- 1. A Worldwide Approach -- The Revolution in Longevity -- Longevity Around The World -- Longevity as an Artifact of Civilization -- Can We Afford Longevity? -- 2. Prevention of Aging -- The Biology of Aging and Longevity -- Quality of Life and Disorders of Longevity -- Understanding the Biological Determinants of Longevity: New Opportunities and Challengesโฆ -- Specific Social Responses to Age-Related Dysfunction -- In Year 2000: Aging, the Forgotten Revolution: Will DHEA Help Us? -- 3. Industrial Responses to Aging -- Pharmaceutical, Biotechnological and Nutritional Interventions In the Disorders of Longevity -- Nutritional Intervention to Help Prevent and Cure Longevity Disorders -- Gerontechnological Interventions and the Health and Quality of Life Of Older People -- Importance of Health in the Elderly: A Challenge to the Biomedical Research & Development and to Society -- Quality and Quantity of Life -- 1. Longevity and Quality of Life -- Ethics and Entrances -- Dignity, Well-being and Quality of Life -- Health, Longevity and Quality of Life -- 2. Ethics of Health Care for the Elderly -- Longevity, Aging and the Demand of Primary Care -- Health Inequalities Persist Into Old Age: Results from the Longitudinal Study -- Gentle Closure -- Social and Cultural Challenges of Longevity -- 1. Longevity: Generational Conflict or Interaction? -- The Age Revolution: Benefits and Concerns -- Are We Moving Toward a War Between the Generations? -- A Remarkable Lack of Intergenerational Conflict: How Should Government Spending be Divided Between Young and Old -- 2. Aging and Cultural Diversity -- Some African Vignettes -- Coping With Old Age in Africa -- 3. Women and Longevity -- Women in the Longevity Revolution -- Political Responsibilities in the Longevity Revolution -- How Seven European Countries Have Anticipated The Consequence of Population Aging in the Healthcare Sector: A Survey of Ernst & Young -- Responsibilities of the Individual and Society: Political Responsibilities in the Revolution In Longevity -- Maintaining Prosperity in An Aging Society -- The Organization and Financing of Social Protection -- Looking Through the Mirror of Old Age -- Literature and Medicine: Garcia Marquezโ Love in the Time of Cholera -- Ethics and Longevity -- Longevity and Quality of Life -- Conclusion -- Synthesis -- Contributors