Description: Part Three lays out societal choices regarding the allocation of resources for treatment, care, and research on dementia.
Brief description: Robert H. Binstock (1935-2011) was, at the time of his death, a professor of aging, health, and society at Case Western Reserve University, where he taught in the public health program and also in the departments of medicine, epidemiology and biostatistics, bioethics, and in the School of Nursing and the College of Arts and Sciences.
Review Quotes: Dementia and Aging will become a standard introduction to what Lewis Thomas called 'the disease of the century' . . . Gerontologists will benefit from reading [this] collection [dealing] with a multifaceted problem from diverse perspectives.
--Gerontologist