Care of the Aged.

• Position: Brief Article - Book Review

Totowa, N.J.: The Humana Press, 2003; humana@humanapress.com.

The growing population of older and infirm persons has given rise to serious questions about their proper care and treatment. What responsibility does society have to its aging citizens? What duties if any do grown children owe their parents? What should be done with severely demented patients? When is a person "elderly"? In this book, an interdisciplinary panel of diverse scholars and practicing ethicists grapples with these and other pressing moral problems associated with the...