Current Issues on International Comparative Law: Volume 3 - International Perspectives on Aging

Although the legals problems of the elderly are as old as humankind, they have taken on current prominence for another reason: lifespan has increased markedly in recent years. Persons who would, given their age, have been the elders of the past and would have been expected to be focused on their imminent death are now, as a group, robust and well. They have better survived the ravages of time than have the plans fashioned when life expectancy was much lower. Questions concerning social status, expectations of living standards, general assistance and medical care all have become far more important and considerably more difficult. As life has become longer, and death more controllable, the issue of a person's right to choose death over diminished quality of life has also become far more complicated. This interesting book provides the reader with a selection of perspectives from scholars in different parts of the world on various branches of "elderlaw". Questions of social obligations to elders and elders' rights and duties are addressed as they arise in the United States, Japan, Greece, New Zealand, the netherlands, Canada and England. The compilation does not attempt to map out the field nor to make country-by-country comparisons of the issues discussed. Rather, it shows some commonality of conerns and in the identification of problems and proposals for their solution.

ISBN 0792316916   DEWEY 305.26 ISBN13 9780792316916 (What's this?)   Pages 308 Publisher Kluwer Law International   Volumes 1 Imprint BRILL ACADEMIC PUB   Published in Leiden Format Hardback   Series ISSN 3 Publication date 01 Apr 1992   Series title Current Issues in International & Comparative Law S. Library of Congress 92007330

		Preface
		Aging: The Human Rights Approach by Luke T. Lee		1
		A Future Law for the Aged: An Analysis of the Japanese Proposed Law Reform for the Future World by Yutaka Tajima		15
		The Obligations of the Elderly by David Thomson		29
		The Obligations of the Elderly: A Comment by Eric Midwinter		79
		Supporting the Aged: The Problem of Family Responsibility by Robert J. Levy		85
		Living Alone in Old Age: The Needs and Rights of the Elderly by Valerie J. Grant		121
		The Elderly in Greece: Demographic Aging and Living Conditions by Ira Emke		161
		Legal Issues in Surgical Care of Elderly Persons by Margaret A. Somerville		185
		Euthanasia in the Netherlands: Current Court Decisions and Legislation by J.L.M. Elders and J. Woretshofer		209
		Death by Directive by George J. Alexander		241
		Index		291

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