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Evidence Based Health Practices for Older Adults : A Guide to Implementa...
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Social Work and Dementia : Good Practice and Care Management
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Social Structures : Demographic Changes and the Well-being of Older Persons
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Dementia and Aging : Ethics, Values, and Policy Choices
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Self, Senility, and Alzheimer's Disease in Modern America
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The Citizen-Patient in Revolutionary and Imperial Paris
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The Child's Right to be Heard in the Healthcare Setting : Perspectives o...
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Why Survive? : Being Old in America

Bok av Robert N. Butler
The author questions the value of long life for its own sake, arguing that modern medicine has ironically created a group for whom survival is possible but satisfaction elusive. He proposed reforms to redefine and restructure the institutions responsible for the elderly in America.