[Services for the aged in the new world. Comments on 'Our future selves: research-plan towards understanding aging'].

A comment is given on the report 'Our future selves; a research-plan towards understanding aging', concerning the human services and delivery systems. The title of the report seems to promise a picture of the aged in the future. It is regretted that the contents of the report only gives some ideas to improve the current services for the elderly. About the procedure in which the report was achieved is said, that the use of a panel of experts requires a very careful choice of the experts. Next to that, you cannot use the saying of a panel as they are, but you have to work them up, if you want to make a research-lan. As it seems that this is not sufficiently done, the results is not a plan, but a mere collection of subjects. Out of this collection five subjects are described (cultural factors, religion-ethics, nutrition, legal services, commerce), on which in the Netherlands little or no research is done. Participation in geronotology by anthropologists, theologians, and jurists is pleaded.