Health care in an aging Canada: constraint or choice?

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Publication Type Book Chapter
School or College College of Social & Behavioral Science
Department Family & Consumer Studies
Creator McDaniel, Susan
Other Author Frideres, James; Bruce, C. J.
Title Health care in an aging Canada: constraint or choice?
Date 1994
Description It is often presumed that population aging will result in increased demand for health care, with older Canadians seen as a "burden" to the working population. Yet, such a presumption of direct correlation (with implied causality) belies the complex questions of societal choices in expenditures: factors such as per capita health care utilization, nondemographic forces that drive the health care system, and the health care system's treatment of older people. Closer examination of trends in health care and in population aging reveal that just as large feet are correlated with, but do not cause, higher intelligence, population aging may be correlated with,but not cause, increasing health care costs.
Type Text
Publisher University of Calgary Press
Volume 8
First Page 121
Last Page 133
Subject Age factors; Canada; Health care costs
Subject LCSH Medical care, Cost of; Aging; Canada
Language eng
Bibliographic Citation McDaniel, S., Frideres, J., & Bruce, C. J. (1994). Health care in an aging Canada: constraint or choice? in Impact of an aging population on society, chapter 8, 121-33.
Rights Management (c) University of Calgary Press
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