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• Letter of Transmittal to the President(p. ix)
• Members of the President's Council on Bioethics(p. xiii)
• Council Staff and Consultants(p. xv)
• Preface(p. xvii)
• 1 Dilemmas of AnagingSociety(p. 1)
• I Aging and Contemporary Society(p. 4)
• A The Aging Society(p. 5)
• B The Trajectory of Chronic Illness and Death(p. 11)
• C The Availability of Caregivers(p. 15)
• 1 The Present Realities of Caregiving(p. 16)
• 2 The Future Availability of Caregivers(p. 17)
• 3 A Caregiving Crisis?(p. 19)
• II Individual Aging and the Lifecycle(p. 21)
• A Biological Nature and Environment(p. 24)
• B The Presence or Absence of Loved Ones(p. 25)
• C Wealth and Poverty(p. 26)
• D Vocation and Avocation(p. 27)
• E Male or Female(p. 28)
• F Mind and Body(p. 29)
• G A Person's View of Death(p. 31)
• H Conclusion: Modernity and the Lifecycle(p. 32)
• III Dementia and the Human Person(p. 34)
• A The Phases of Alzheimer's Disease(p. 36)
• B Cause and Remedy(p. 38)
• C Alzheimer's Disease and Human Experience(p. 41)
• IV Aging and the Common Good(p. 46)
• Endnotes(p. 49)
• 2 The Limited Wisdom of Advance Directives(p. 53)
• I Defining Key Terms(p. 56)
• II The Emergence of Advance Directives in Policy and Law(p. 58)
• III The Principles and Aims of Advance Instruction Directives(p. 67)
• IV Living Wills in Practice: Evaluating Success and Failure(p. 70)
• V Conceptual and Moral Limits of Choosing in Advance(p. 80)
• A The Problem of "Informed Consent"(p. 81)
• B Prior Wishes and Present Welfare(p. 82)
• C Personal Identity and the Obligations of Care(p. 85)
• VI Beyond Living Wills: The Wisdom and Limits of Proxy Directives and Advance Care Planning(p. 89)
• Endnotes(p. 91)
• 3 Theethics OfCaregiving: GeneralPrinciples(p. 95)
• I Defining the Subject(p. 100)
• II Human Contexts of Caregiving: Life, Death, and Modern Medicine(p. 102)
• A The Worth of Human Lives(p. 103)
• B The Meaning of Human Deaths(p. 108)
• C Modern Medicine(p. 113)
• III The Ethics of Caregiving(p. 118)
• A The Goals of Caregiving(p. 120)
• 1 Respect for the Person's Prior Wishes and Ideals(p. 120)
• 2 The Well-Being of the Family(p. 123)
• 3 The Good of Society(p. 125)
• 4 Best Care for the Person Now Here(p. 128)
• B Moral Guidelines(p. 130)
• 1 Ordinary and Extraordinary Care(p. 131)
• 2 Acts of Commission and Acts of Omission(p. 133)
• a Never beginning treatment versus ceasing/removing a treatment-in- process(p. 135)
• b Active killing versus letting die(p. 136)
• 3 Doing and Accomplishing: Motives, Intended Deeds, and Goals(p. 140)
• 4 Burdens of Treatment and Burdens of Disease(p. 144)
• C Moral Boundaries(p. 147)
• Endnotes(p. 150)
• 4 EthicalCaregiving: Principle and Prudence inHardcases(p. 151)
• I Deciding for Oneself and Deciding for Others(p. 154)
• II The Significance of Age-Related Dementia and Its Stages(p. 164)
• III The Well-Being of the Patient(p. 171)
• A Dementia and Well-Being(p. 172)
• B The