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Time to decide: a seminar at the Oxford Centre on Population Ageing
- Authors:
- HARDING Tessa, HERBERT Gill, HARPER Sarah
- Publisher:
- Help the Aged
- Publication year:
- 2000
- Pagination:
- 14p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This jointly sponsored seminar discussed the legal and professional frameworks for decision making with regard to older people. The right of older people to make their own decisions is rarely discussed, but in fact is very important to them. The complexities of the issues involved including how, where and with whom to live, to be treated or not, the different attitude to risk taking, control over finances, choice after death and so on, were confirmed by the case studies cited. Common practice, the impacts on carers, and supported decision making were covered.
Ageing update: ageing 2000 - questions for the 21st century
- Author:
- HARPER Sarah
- Journal article citation:
- Ageing and Society, 20(1), January 2000, pp.111-122.
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
There is a growing awareness among politicians, policy makers and the general public that the ageing population is one of the most important socioeconomic challenges for the 21st Century. Considers the development of academic gerontology in the UK, issues that need to be addressed and areas for future development.