Answer the following statements true (T) or false (F)
1. Throughout industrialized countries, health care spending increases with age, and it accelerates at advanced ages, especially for the oldest-old (85+).
2. Callahan’s proposal for age-based rationing assumes that care for older patients in their last year of life is expensive because of high-technology, life-sustaining medical treatment.
3. Callahan argues that the primary role of elders is to serve the young and the future.
4. According to Callahan, people should be allowed to live out their “natural life spans,” after which time they should be allowed to die.
5. A “tolerable death” is one that can occur at any age due to causes that are beyond the control of medical care.
1. True
2. True
3. True
4. True
5. False
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