Older People and Medical Care

Authors: Topinkova, Eva
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Hastings Center Report
Abstract: Deals with long-term care for the elderly affected by chronic disease and disability. Long-term care as a part of health care or a welfare problem; Medical and non-medical needs; The trend to `demedicalization'; The need to target a...
Year: 1994

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Authors: Thorslund, Mats ; Parker, Marti G.
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Hastings Center Report
Abstract: Focuses on how to meet the dual challenges of providing needed medical care to the elderly and containing costs. The search for alternative ways to organize the care for elderly people; Efforts in Sweden; Cost of services for the el...
Year: 1994

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Authors: Muelen, Ruud ter ; Topinkova, Eva ; Callahan, Daniel
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Hastings Center Report
Abstract: Outlines recommendations of a Joint International Research Group of The Institute for Bioethics in Maastricht, the Netherlands and the Hastings Center in Briarcliff Manor, New York, on the allocation of social and health care resour...
Year: 1994

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Authors: van den Berg Jeths, Anneke ; Thorslund, Mats
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Hastings Center Report
Abstract: Looks at the availability of future health care services for the elderly in the Netherlands and Sweden. The project `Ethics and the Care of the Elderly'; The varying health care systems of European countries; A conceptual framework ...
Year: 1994

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Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: Though technological advancements have made it possible to prolong the life of individuals who suffer from terminal illness and/or advanced age, many patients may not want to prolong their suffering with unwanted surgeries and treat...
Year: 2008
URL: http://ethics.iit.edu/EEL/Slow%20Medicine%20Elderly%20Care.pdf

Authors: Parker, Lisa S. ; Buller, Thomas G.
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Hastings Center Report
Abstract: Presents commentary by the authors on a case study involving a recently-widowed 70-year-old woman who was hospitalized for depression and developed swallowing difficulties which posed risk of aspiration. The problem of resolving con...
Year: 1994

Biblio - KBL781 - 2010-11-18 16:37

Authors: Niemira, Denise
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Hastings Center Report
Abstract: Discusses the ethical dilemmas faced by physicians treating the incompetent elderly patient. Profile of the fragile elderly; Difficulty of defining terms and circumstances; Tension between respect for life and respect for autonomy....
Year: 1993

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Authors: Moody, Harry R.
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Hastings Center Report
Abstract: Offers four scenarios about the future of an aging society based on plausible extrapolations from present empirical trends along with assumptions about the meaning of old age. Prolongation of morbidity; Compression of morbidity; Pro...
Year: 1994

Biblio - KBL781 - 2010-11-18 16:28

Authors: Meulen, Ruud ter
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Hastings Center Report
Abstract: States that health care in most European countries is based on the principle of solidarity and considers whether there are limits to solidarity with the elderly. The impact of medicalization within society; The strains on intergener...
Year: 1994

Biblio - KBL781 - 2010-11-18 16:25

Authors: Jennett, Bryan
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Hastings Center Report
Abstract: Examines the benefits and burdens of invasive therapies for the elderly with life-threatening illness. Services that prolong the dying process; Therapeutic technologies including lifesaving, life-sustaining and life-enhancing; Frequ...
Year: 1994

Biblio - KBL781 - 2010-11-18 16:04

Authors: Hanson, Mark J.
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Hastings Center Report
Abstract: Summarizes several country reports from the research project `Ethics and the Care of the Elderly.' The increase in the elderly population worldwide; The issue of their care; Long-term care; Quality of care; Home care; Social support...
Year: 1994

Biblio - KBL781 - 2010-11-18 15:58

Authors: Gillett, Grant
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Hastings Center Report
Abstract: Talks about relationship between self and mind. Examples of brain functions; Information self; Similarities of mind to an iceberg....
Year: 2002

Biblio - KBL781 - 2010-11-18 15:53

Authors: Freedman, Benjamin
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Hastings Center Report
Abstract: Focuses on the religious conflicts in providing medical care for the Jewish aged. Misunderstanding of medical care principles between the patients' adult children and caregivers; Tradition in Jewish culture giving care responsibilit...
Year: 1996

Biblio - KBL781 - 2010-11-18 15:50

Authors: Dresser, Rebecca ; Whitehouse, Peter J.
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Hastings Center Report
Abstract: Asserts that decisions about life-sustaining treatment for incompetent patients should be based on what the patient would choose if competent and aware. What experiences should count in objective welfare tests; How to evaluate the i...
Year: 1994

Biblio - KBL781 - 2010-11-18 15:41

Authors: Callahan, Daniel
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Hastings Center Report
Abstract: Discusses the care of dementia patients and the termination of their treatment in the United States. Advance directives in the care of the demented; Policies on the termination of care; Economic aspects of the care of the demented; ...
Year: 1995

Biblio - KBL781 - 2010-11-18 15:19

Authors: Callahan, Daniel
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Hastings Center Report
Abstract: Proposes a plan for improving the program for the long-term needs of the elderly under Medicaid. Improbability of reform via full subsidization of the program; Plan as giving the elderly the option of exchanging their right to exten...
Year: 1993

Biblio - KBL781 - 2010-11-18 15:18

Authors: Brakman, Sarah-Vaughan
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Hastings Center Report
Abstract: Profiles and discusses adult daughter caregivers. The current average caregiver to the elderly is 45, female, married. Among children who are primary caregivers, daughters outnumber sons three to one. Gender-specific filial caregivi...
Year: 1994

Biblio - KBL781 - 2010-11-18 15:13

Authors: Blasszauer, Bela
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Hastings Center Report
Abstract: Offers an overview of aging and care of the elderly in Hungary. When old age begins in Hungary; Types of institutional care; `Social homes'; The increasing pauperization of retired people in all post-Communist countries; State pater...
Year: 1994

Biblio - KBL781 - 2010-11-18 15:11

Authors: Allert, Gebhard ; Sponholz, Gerlinde
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Hastings Center Report
Abstract: Reflects on what old age accompanied by chronic disease means to the individual, to the individual's family and other caregivers and to the public. Meaning and life narrative; `Meaning' within personal relationships; Families; Careg...
Year: 1994

Biblio - KBL781 - 2010-11-18 15:03

Authors: Aroskar, Mila Ann
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Hastings Center Report
Abstract: Traces the development of ethics in nursing and its relationship to President Bill Clinton's health care reform proposal. Nursing's social mandate; Florence Nightingale's foundational views of nursing; Emergence of broad humanistic ...
Year: 1994

Biblio - KBL781 - 2010-11-18 15:06

Authors: Johnson, S.
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Hastings Center Report
Abstract: Comments on the differences between nursing homes and hospitals in relation to health care decision making. Patient Self-Determination Act; How the differences arise; Regulatory systems applicable to nursing homes and hospitals; Cou...
Year: 1991

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Authors: English, Dan C. ; Veatch, Robert M. ; Haddad, Amy Marie
Publication Type: Book
Abstract: This book explores fundamental ethical questions arising from real situations faced by health professionals, patients, and others. After introducing readers to a framework for ethical decision making and looking at major concepts in...
Year: 2010

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Authors: Smyer, Michael A. ; Pruchno, Rachel
Publication Type: Book
Abstract: "In this collection, some of the best minds in gerontology and bioethics explore the ethical, social, and political challenges of an aging society. A unique combination of disciplines and perspectives from economics to nursing, psyc...
Year: 2007

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Authors: Bandman, Elsie L. ; Bandman, Bertram
Publication Type: Book
Abstract: This introductory test uses philosophical guidelines to assist readers in making ethically sound choices in nursing. it explores both traditional and controversial ethical theories and changing trends in the health field, such as ma...
Year: 2002

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