Knepper K
Missouri Department of Social Services, USA.
J Leg Med. 1996 Jun;17(2):215-75. doi: 10.1080/01947649609511007.
When, as projected, nearly one out of every four Americans is age sixty-five or more, one out of every four Americans over sixty-five will spend time in a nursing home, and caregiver families scarcely exist, we will no longer be able to avert our eyes from the grim options faced by our senior citizens. Nor will we be able to continue to operate under the comforting but often false illusion that our convenient dispositions are actually serving the best interests of the elderly.
如果按照预计，每四个美国人中就有近一个年龄在65岁及以上，65岁以上的美国人中有四分之一将在养老院度过一段时间，而照顾者家庭几乎不存在，那么我们将再也无法对老年人面临的严峻选择视而不见。我们也无法再继续在一种令人欣慰但往往虚假的幻想下运作，即我们随意的安排实际上是在为老年人的最大利益服务。
