Hostname: page-component-78c5997874-fbnjt Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-11-10T13:22:44.119Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

Ethics, Health Research, and Canada’s Aging Population*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 December 2010

Nola M. Ries
Nola M. Ries*
Affiliation:
University of Alberta Health Law Institute
*
†Correspondence and requests for offprints should be sent to / La correspondance et les demandes de tirés-à-part doivent être adressées à: Nola M. Ries, M.P.A., L.L.M., University of Alberta Health Law Institute, Edmonton, AB T6G 2H5 (nries@law.ualberta.ca)
Get access Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Abstract

An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content.
Image of the first page of this content. For PDF version, please use the ‘Save PDF’ preceeding this image.'
Type
Canadian Institutes of Health Research–Institute of Aging: Profile/Instituts de recherche en santé du Canada (IRSC) – Institut du vieillissement : Profils
Information
Canadian Journal on Aging / La Revue canadienne du vieillissement , Volume 29 , Issue 4 , December 2010 , pp. 577 - 580
Copyright
Copyright © Canadian Association on Gerontology 2010

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

Footnotes

*

This article is based, in part, on a research report prepared for Health Canada in spring 2010. All views expressed in this article are solely those of the author.

References

Alzheimer Society of Canada. (2009). Rising tide: The impact of dementia on Canadian society. Retrieved September 16, 2010 fromhttp://www.alzheimer.ca/english/rising_tide/rising_tide_report.htmGoogle Scholar
Bayer, A., & Tadd, W. (2000). Unjustified exclusion of elderly people from studies submitted to research ethics committee for approval: Descriptive study. British Medical Journal, 321, 992–993.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Black, B.S., Rabins, P.V., Sugarman, J., & Karlawish, J.H. (2010). Seeking assent and respecting dissent in dementia research. American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, 18(1), 77–85.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
British Geriatrics Society. (2009). In response to a public consultation process conducted by the Nuffield Council on Bioethics, quoted in Dementia: Ethical issues. London: Nuffield Council on Bioethics. Retrieved September 16, 2010 fromhttp://www.nuffieldbioethics.org/fileLibrary/pdf/Dementia_report_for_web.pdfGoogle Scholar
Bugeja, G., Kumar, A., & Banerjee, A.K. (1997). Exclusion of elderly people from clinical research: A descriptive study of published reports. British Medical Journal, 315, 1059. The study found that 170 out of 490 papers revealed unjustified exclusions of older people.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Callahan, D. (1987). Setting limits: Medical goals in an aging society. New York: Simon and Schuster.Google Scholar
Canadian Health Services Research Foundation. (2002). Mythbusters—Myth: The aging population will overwhelm the healthcare system. Ottawa, Ontario, Canada: Canadian Health Services Research Foundation. Retrieved September 16, 2010 fromhttp://www.chsrf.ca./mythbusters/pdf/myth5_e.pdfGoogle Scholar
Canadian Institute for Health Information. (2009). Health care in Canada 2009: A decade in review. Ottawa, Ontario, Canada: Canadian Institute for Health Information.Google Scholar
Daniels, N., & Sabin, J.E. (2008). Accountability for reasonableness: An update. British Medical Journal, 337, a1850.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Fleck, L.M. (2010). Just caring: In defense of limited age-based healthcare rationing. Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics, 19, 27–37.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Habitch, D.W., & McMurdo, M.E.T. (2008). The under-representation of older people in clinical trials: Barriers and potential solutions. Journal of Nutrition, Health and Aging, 12(3), 194–196.Google Scholar
Harris, J. (1985). The value of life. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul.Google Scholar
Knapp, M., & Prince, M. (2007). Dementia UK. London: Alzheimer’s Society. The Nuffield Council on Bioethics report.Google Scholar
McMurdo, M. (2005). Including older people in clinical research. British Medical Journal, 331, 1036–1037.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Office of the Parliamentary Budget Officer. (2010). Fiscal sustainability report. Retrieved September 16, 2010 fromhttp://www2.parl.gc.ca/Sites/PBO-DPB/documents/FSR_2010.pdfGoogle Scholar
Persad, G., Wertheimer, A., & Emanuel, E.J. (2009). Principles for allocation of scarce medical interventions. Lancet, 373, 423–431.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Pierce, R. (2010). A changing landscape for advance directives in dementia research. Social Science & Medicine, 70, 623–630.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Puts, M.T., Monette, J., Girre, V., Wolfson, C., Monette, M., Batist, G., et al. . (2009). Participation of older newly-diagnosed cancer patients in an observational prospective pilot study: An example of recruitment and retention. BMC Cancer, 9, 277. doi:10.1186/1471-2407-9-277.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Samelson, E.J., Kelsey, J.L., Kiel, D.P., Roman, A.M., Cupples, L.A., Freeman, M.B., et al. (2008). Issues in conducting epidemiologic research among elders: Lessons from the MOBILIZE Boston study. American Journal of Epidemiology, 168(12), 1444–1451.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Senate, Special Senate Committee on Aging—Final Report. (2009). Canada’s aging population: Seizing the opportunity (The Honourable Sharon Carstairs, P.C., Chair, The Honourable Wilbert Joseph Keon, Deputy Chair). Retrieved September 16, 2010 fromhttp://www.parl.gc.ca/40/2/parlbus/commbus/senate/com-e/agei-e/rep-e/AgingFinalReport-e.pdfGoogle Scholar
Scott, I.A., & Gyatt, G.H. (2010). Cautionary tales in the interpretation of clinical studies involving older persons. Archives of Internal Medicine, 170(7), 587–595.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
van Spall, H.G.C., Toren, A., Kiss, A., & Fowler, R.A. (2007). Eligibility criteria of randomized controlled trials published in high-impact general medical journals. Journal of the American Medical Association, 297, 1233–1240.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed