The aging self.
The aging self.
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衰老的自己。
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1982
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R. Atchley
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In September 2005, the President’s Council on Bioethics issued a report entitled Taking Care: Ethical Caregiving in Our Aging Society. The report addresses one of the gravest ethical, political, and economic questions now facing us—how to live well with aging and decline and how to care well for those who suffer debilitating diseases like Alzheimer’s. In Washington, most committee reports are ignored or forgotten unless they offer a series of “solutions,” “proposals,” and “action items.” For practical people bearing the weight of making public policy, this penchant for “can-do” documents is understandable and often necessary. Act first, think later. But wise policymaking occasionally benefits from deeper kinds of reflection about who we are as individuals and what we aspire to become as a society. And the dilemmas of growing old ourselves and caring for loved ones in decline are surely policy matters, but they are hardly policy matters alone. In this spirit, we offer the following brief excerpt from the council’s latest report—the seventh and last report to be issued under the stewardship of Dr. Leon Kass. What follows is perhaps the least “practical” section of the whole document—a reflection on what it means to be an aging person in the modern world, for better and for worse.
