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Preliminary Material -- THE PRESENT SITUATION: DIAGNOSIS AND TREATMENT /Harry Lesser -- OLDER PEOPLE, CARE, DIGNITY, AND HUMAN RIGHTS /Peter Crome -- AGE, DIGNITY, AND SOCIAL POLICY /Andrew Edgar -- DANGERS AND DILEMMAS SURROUNDING THE CONSUMPTION OF ANTI-AGEING MEDICINE /Beatriz Cardona -- LONELINESS IN OLDER PATIENTS /Harry Lesser -- THE EFFECT OF AGEING ON AUTONOMY /Caroline Dunn -- AUTONOMY FOR OLDER PATIENTS IN BEDSIDE MEDICINE: OBSERVATIONS FROM A DEVELOPING NATION /Ashish Goel , Wilma Wilson and AB Dey -- INTERVENTION WITHOUT PATIENT CONSENT /Harry Lesser -- IS A GRAY WORLD DESIRABLE? /Simona Giordano -- PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT IN OLD AGE /John Hostler -- THE GLOBAL DISTRIBUTION OF HEALTHCARE RESOURCES IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY /Robin Attfield -- THE RIVAL CLAIMS OF CHILDREN AND ADULTS TO HEALTHCARE RESOURCES: IS THERE A NEED FOR GREATER COHERENCE IN OUR VIEW? /Margaret Harris -- SETTING LIMITS FAIRLY: A CRITIQUE OF SOME OF DANIEL CALLAHAN'S VIEWS /Michael Rivlin -- SOCIAL INJUSTICE: DISTRIBUTIVE EGALITARIANISM, THE COMPLETE-LIFE VIEW, AND AGE DISCRIMINATION /Richard Wagland -- A FAIR INNINGS OR A COMPLETE LIFE: ANOTHER ATTEMPT AT AN EGALITARIAN JUSTIFICATION OF AGEISM /Richard Wagland -- TRIAGE AND OLDER PATIENTS /Harry Lesser -- JUSTICE, GUIDELINES, AND VIRTUES /Julian C. Hughes -- ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS -- INDEX -- VIBS.

The number of older people in prison is growing. As more and more people over the age of 60 struggle to cope behind prison walls, the prison service and the wider community are failing to meet their complex needs, according to Lorraine Atkinson of the Howard League for Penal Reform.

Older People in Modern Society is an established classic text in its field and through subsequent editions its reputation and that of its author has grown. In this fourth and renamed edition, Anthea Tinker synthesises and discusses a wide range of literature about older people, drawing from fields such as medicine, sociology and social policy and using primary source material to illustrate the text. She also introduces a number of topics that have attained greater importance since publication of the third edition in 1992, for example, continuing care and the abuse of older people