Tag: elderly
Balancing Lives, Economics, and Public Policy in This Plague
Our political policy makers (the President, Congress and the Senate, governors, etc.) should make their calculus transparent.
Washington Post Boosts Elderly “Rational Suicide”
The story ends with the phone number of a suicide prevention hotline. That’s just a sop after potentially putting lethal ideas into readers’ heads.
A “Healthspan” Duty to Die for the Elderly?
University of Illinois professor S. Jay Olshansky argues that it is time to shift medicine’s focus — starting at age 65 — away from “life extension.”
Promoting “Rational” Suicide by the Elderly
September 10 is World Suicide Prevention Day. I used to call the annual event “Invisible Suicide Prevention Day” because it is so often ignored in major media.
Stop Blaming Elderly and Terminally Ill for Our Health-Care Spending Problems
There is a widely believed myth that the elderly and dying take up a huge amount of the overall health-care budget.