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| Decision-making capacity and older persons | | Author(s) | Marshall B Kapp |
| Journal title | Ethics, Law and Aging Review, vol 10, 2004 |
| Publisher | Springer Publishing Company, New York, NY, 2004 |
| Pages | 138 pp (whole issue) |
| Source | Springer Publishing Company, Inc., 11 West 42nd Street, New York, NY 10036-8002. http://www.springerpub.com |
| Keywords | Medical care ; Rights [elderly] ; Social ethics ; Law ; United States of America ; Israel. |
| Annotation | Part I comprises five chapters that contribute to discussion of the decision-making capacity issue. The first describes a course developed to guide nursing home caregivers through an ethical reasoning process based on commitments made to care recipients. Other chapters cover the older person's decision-making capacity to choose to remain living alone in the community; finding helpful standardised instruments for evaluating decision-making capacity in contexts such as Parkinson's disease; and formal guardianship proceedings versus "bumbling through". Part II comprises two independent articles, the first being on end-of-life liability issues. The second discusses an Israeli example of the work versus eldercare dilemma, that is, how laws and policies relating to employment can be reconciled with the provision of caring responsibilities at home by families and friends. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-050110201 B |
| Classmark | LK: IKR: TQ: VR: 7T: 7H6 |
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