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| Issues in conducting research with and about older persons | | Author(s) | Marshall B Kapp |
| Journal title | Ethics, Law and Aging Review, vol 8, 2002 |
| Publisher | Springer Publishing Company, New York, NY, 2002 |
| Pages | 166 pp (whole issue) |
| Source | Springer Publishing Company, Inc., 11 West 42nd Street, New York, NY 10036-8002. http://www.springerpub.com |
| Keywords | Health [elderly] ; Health services ; Participant observation ; Clinical surveys ; Participation ; Research ; Rights [elderly] ; Social ethics. |
| Annotation | Four principles govern the conduct of research involving human participants: respect, beneficence, non-maleficence, and justice. Older people, their families and formal caregivers have a vital stake in research, since, among other things, many forms of illness and disability are age-related. However, biomedical, behavioural and health services research with older people raises concerns on issues such balancing risks and benefits. Part I of this volume comprises five chapters on the ethical and legal issues and implications of conducting research with and about older people, the first of which considers ethical issues on informed consent. The other four examine: decisional capacity and consent for research with older people who are cognitively impaired; the testing and approval of drugs; ethical and legal considerations in health services research; and the implications for mental health professionals of regulating research with decisionally impaired participants. Part II comprises three independent articles: ethical complexities of aggressive surgical intervention in the very old; guardianship and long-term care; and respecting patients' medical preferences near the end of life. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-050127218 B |
| Classmark | CC: L: 3DB: 3G: TMB: 3A: IKR: TQ |
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