Realizing and Maintaining Capabilities
Late Life as a Social Project
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20336576 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Matthew Dunn (0000-0001-5349-5252), Michael Dunn (0000-0001-7457-3344, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 48 |
| Issue | S3 |
| Pages | S25-S30 |
| Publication date | 2018-09-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Hastings Center Report (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0093-0334 • E-ISSN: 1552-146X |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1002/hast.909 |
| PMID | 30311229 |
| OpenAlex | W2896566471 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 20 |
One central and unfortunately unavoidable characteristic of the aging process is its association with chronic physiological deterioration. Frailty, cognitive impairment, and physical conditions such as cardiovascular disease and vision and hearing loss are more frequent in this phase of life, and these conditions translate into an increasing need for care and support of multiple kinds. In traditional bioethical scholarship, these distinctive features of aging have been examined predominantly through a health‐focused lens. My main contention in this essay, however, is that viewing aging within bioethics as primarily a health problem, to be addressed through frameworks for decision‐making or for resource allocation, is inadequate. My aim is to consider how the health conditions associated with aging affect older people’s lives in a much more expansive way than has typically been acknowledged. Just as importantly, I intend to show how shifting our bioethical imagination in this way raises different and challenging questions about what a good life in late life consists in and about what is owed to older people, in their personal and social lives, as a matter of justice
Affect (linguistics) · Bioethics · Economic Justice · Expansive · Health care · Political science · Scholarship · Successful aging · Ethics in medical practice · Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life · Law · Medicine · Patient Dignity and Privacy · Psychology · Social Psychology · Gerontology
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Frontiers of Justice
What We Desire, What We Have Reason to Desire, Whatever We Might Desire
Utility and Capability
Precarity in late life
Valuing the Icecap capability index for older people
From Primary Goods to Capabilities
Wellbeing, Freedom and Social Justice
Women and Human Development
The Idea of Justice
| Citations per year | 0.5 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2020 - 2026 (7) |
| Highly cited | No |