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| Participation of chronically ill older adults in their life-prolonging treatment decisions: rights and opportunity | | Author(s) | Sarah Shidler |
| Journal title | Canadian Journal on Aging, vol 17, no 1, 1998 |
| Pages | pp 1-23 |
| Keywords | Dying ; Terminal care ; Medical care ; Long term patients ; Participation ; Communication ; Law ; Canada. |
| Annotation | The right of the individual to participate in his or her life-prolonging treatment decisions, either as a decision maker or by having his or her treatment wishes used as a decision making criterion, is the result of development in legal guidelines over the last two decades in Canada. This article describes the legal guidelines, and argues that although they are necessary, the guidelines are not sufficient to assure the individual's opportunity to participate. For the chronically ill older person residing in a health care institution, the opportunity to participate in decisions concerning life-prolonging treatments implicitly depends on the effective communication among three key actors - the individual, the physician, and the proxy. The necessity of this communication has important implications for clinical practice and future empirical research. (AKM). |
| Accession Number | CPA-980702402 A |
| Classmark | CX: LV: LK: LF7:4Q: TMB: U: VR: 7S |
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