Walker Tom
J Med Ethics. 2016 Jun;42(6):348-52. doi: 10.1136/medethics-2016-103563. Epub 2016 May 4.
Around the world, the population is ageing in ways that pose new challenges for healthcare providers. To date these have mostly been formulated in terms of challenges created by increasing costs, and the focus has been squarely on life-prolonging treatments. However, this focus ignores the ways in which many older people require life-enhancing treatments to counteract the effects of physical and mental decline. This paper argues that in doing so it misses important aspects of what justice requires when it comes to older people.
在全球范围内,人口老龄化正以各种方式给医疗保健提供者带来新的挑战。迄今为止,这些挑战大多是从成本增加所带来的挑战角度来阐述的,并且重点完全放在了延长生命的治疗上。然而,这种重点忽视了许多老年人需要改善生活的治疗来抵消身心衰退影响的方式。本文认为,这样做忽略了在对待老年人问题上正义所要求的重要方面。