Arreta medikoei murrizketarik?

MARTÍNEZ URIONABARRENETXEA, Koldo

Publication year:

2003

Publication place:

Donostia-San Sebastián

ISSN:

1577-8533

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Summary

There are people who attribute the fault for the increase of health care costs to the elderly. But while society does not provide a common answer on old age and death, on common and individual welfare, on the purposes of medicine and on the relationships between generations, the problem will still be there. One solution would be to limit the attention that fulfils basic ethical conditions. Age can be an instrument for limitation, but biographical age, and not, by any account, biological age.