Why Survive?: Being Old in America.

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Robert N. Butler · Washington School of Psychiatry

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The author questions the value of long life for its own sake, arguing that modern medicine has ironically created a group for whom survival is possible but satisfaction elusive. He proposed reforms to redefine and restructure the institutions responsible for the elderly in America.

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Primary Care and Health Outcomes Optimism, Hope, and Well-being

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Published in: Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews

Volume 7, Issue 3, pp. 280-280

DOI: 10.2307/2064452

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