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Longevity: Living longer – without thinking about age?
Medicine and prevention can add years to life. But a long life also needs autonomy, relationships, and good care.
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Assisted suicide in care homes: self-determination or too much compulsion?
Zurich voters have decided that hospitals and care homes must now allow assisted suicide. A difficult question remains: how can an autonomous wish be respected without overburdening care, families or institutions?
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Should family elder care be paid?
People who help a close relative dress, eat or wash can now receive pay through private home-care providers. This recognises care work, but also raises questions about costs, profit margins and the boundary between family help and professional nursing.
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