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Deinstitutionalizing long-term care
— making legal strides, avoiding policy errors | | Author(s) | Marshall B Kapp |
| Journal title | Ethics, Law and Aging Review, vol 11, 2005 |
| Publisher | Springer Publishing Company, New York, NY, 2005 |
| Pages | 124 pp (whole issue) |
| Source | Springer Publishing Company, Inc., 11 West 42nd Street, New York, NY 10036-8002. http://www.springerpub.com |
| Keywords | Psychogeriatric patients ; Discharge ; Community care ; Living in the community ; Social ethics ; Law ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | The purpose of this volume is to bring together some original articles that examine the potential for changing long-term care, identify obstacles to change, and enlighten service providers, advocates and key policy makers in avoiding previous pitfalls in bringing about de-institutionalisation in the US. Two chapters include consideration of the 1999 decision, Olmstead v LC, which ruled it discriminatory to institutionalise a person who is disabled and wishes to live in the community and is capable from benefiting from such a setting. One of The chapters including this case discusses community-based alternatives to nursing homes for older people with serious mental illness. Other chapters look at rebalancing state long-term care systems; the use of prisons as long-term care facilities for people with psychiatric disabilities; and legal and ethical responsibility in worst-case situations when consumer-directed alternatives to nursing homes fail. Lastly, an independent article considers cross-cultural aspects of geriatric decision-making capacity. This volume of Ethics, Law and Aging Review is the last to be published. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-060525201 B |
| Classmark | LF:E: QKJ: PA: K4: TQ: VR: 7T |
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