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By Martha B. Holstein PhD, Phyllis B. Mitzen ACSW LCSW

Taking care of elders open air of associations is the quickest transforming into zone folks future health care. construction on their learn learn on the Park Ridge heart, editors Holstein and Mitzen, including a workforce of specialists, research the complexities excited about constructing an ethics for community-based long term care. additionally they problem policymakers to make domestic care a extra workable choice for older humans in desire. Chapters tackle some of the moral and functional difficulties that come up within the care of older individuals with actual and psychological disabilities--including easy methods to allocate scarce cash, how one can continue strong caregivers, find out how to stability matters of autonomy, threat and security, and employee rigidity. the quantity is a superb source for practitioners, policymakers, and scholars.

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Autonomy and long term care. ). Hofland, B. F. (1988). Autonomy in long term care: Background issues and a programmatic response. ), 3-9. Leder, D. (2000). Aging into the spirit: From traditional wisdom to innovative programs and communities. Generations, 23(4), 36-41. Leder, D. (1997). Spiritual passages: Embracing life's sacred journey. New York: Tarcher/Putnam. Moody, H. R. (1997). The five stages of the soul. New York: Anchor Books/Random House. Moody, H. R. (1988). From informed consent to negotiated consent.

What treatments are provided to whom? Are the older Ethics and Aging 25 person's preferences for care and for providers managed away? The recent ethical research of Daniels and Sabin (1997) is noteworthy. It examined the decision-making process used by managed care organizations (MCOs) and other insurers for adding coverage for new technologies, especially those involved in treating the elderly, analyzed the best practices in use, and developed principles for improving the process with special attention to MCOs enrolling Medicare patients.

In 1984, the Retirement Research Foundation (RRF) decided to help fill this gap in attention and knowledge by developing a special initiative in ethics and aging. A key informant telephone interview study of a cross-section of 18 professionals with expertise in ethics and aging (including philosophers, physicians, attorneys, theologians, and social scientists) and consultant meetings with a smaller group of professionals identified two primary possible emphases for the initiative. One major possibility was "Autonomy of the Elderly Individual," a rubric within which the experts included such issues as informed consent, the decision-making capacity of older adults with cognitive impairment, and the maintenance of personal autonomy, particularly for frail elders.

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