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Care of the aged /

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The growing population of elderly and infirm has given rise to serious questions about their proper care and treatment. What responsibility does society have to its aging citizens? What duties if any do grown children owe their parents? What should be done with severely demented patients? When is a...

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Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Humber, James M., Almeder, Robert F.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Totowa, N.J. : Humana Press, [2003]
Series:Biomedical ethics reviews ; 2003.
Subjects:
Older people > Care.
Older people > Care > Moral and ethical aspects.
Geriatrics > ethics.
Aged.
Ethics, Medical.
Health Services for the Aged > ethics.
Human Rights.
FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS > Abuse > Elder Abuse.
FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS > Eldercare.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Enter the elderly woman as citizen: the implications of a feminist ethics of care / Sheila M. Neysmith
  • Disrespecting our elders: attitudes ad practices of care(lessness) / Allyson Robichaud
  • Hazards of decoupling respect from rights: the inclusion of elderly severely demented patients in "nontherapeutic" clinical trials / Jennifer Jackson
  • Resolving ethical dilemmas in community-based care: a new set of principles / Susan McCarthy
  • Care home ethics / Simon Woods and Max Elstein
  • The ethics of pain management in older adults / Marshall B. Kapp
  • Duties to aging parents / Claudia Mills
  • Filial obligation, Kant's duty of beneficence, and need / Susan Clark Miller.