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How should healthcare systems prepare to care for growing numbers and proportions of older people? Older people generally suffer worse health than younger people do. Should societies take steps to reduce age-related health inequalities? Some express concern that doing so would increase age-related inequalities in healthcare. This paper addresses this debate by (1) presenting an argument in support of three principles for distributing scarce resources between age groups; (2) framing these principles of age group justice in terms of life stages; and (3) indicating policy implications that merit further attention in light of rapidly aging societies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Focuses on the rationing of age-based health care. Increase in the number of aged people; Consideration of the inequalities between age groups; Government investments on other health care priorities; Comparison of the number of aged women to aged men.