Volume 33, Issue 1, Spring 2019
Nancy S. Jecker
Pages 35-41
Growing Older and Getting Wiser
Lessons from Japan
Health care reform to provide long-term care supportive services for growing numbers of older Americans presents ethical, cultural, and political challenges. This paper draws lessons from Japan, the world’s oldest nation, to develop an ethical argument in support of enacting public long-term care in the U.S. Despite cultural and political challenges, the paper shows that the ethical case for reform is strong, with broad ethical support from a range of ethical perspectives.