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Your rights to health care
- Author:
- EASTERBROOK Lorna
- Publisher:
- Age Concern
- Publication year:
- 2005
- Pagination:
- 296p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This book provides information about the main entitlements to health care for older people, particularly NHS services provided in England. Chapters include: knowing your rights; asking for and getting help; GPs and primary care services; opticians and eyesight; hearing services; therapies and other support; mental health; going in to hospital; coming out of hospital; organ and blood donation; death and dying; and making complaints.
Making the right moves: rights and protection for adults with incapacity; laid before Scottish Parliament by the Scottish Ministers, August 1999
- Author:
- SCOTLAND. Scottish Executive
- Publisher:
- Stationery Office
- Publication year:
- 1999
- Pagination:
- 36p.
- Place of publication:
- Edinburgh
Statement setting out Scottish Executive plans to introduce comprehensive legislation in the Scottish Parliament to protect the rights and interests of adults who lack capacity because of mental health problems, learning difficulties, or dementia.
A community dialogue series on ethics and elder abuse: guidelines for decision-making
- Authors:
- ANETZBERGER Georgia J., DAYTON Carol, McMONAGLE Paulette
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Elder Abuse and Neglect, 9(1), 1997, pp.33-50.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia, USA
Ethical dilemmas characterise the prevention and treatment of elder abuse but few guidelines exist for professionals or communities to examine and resolve them. Reports on a Community Dialogue Series on Ethics and Elder Abuse held in Ohio, USA which focused discussion across professional disciplines, service systems, and cultural groups. Presents the resulting guidelines along with a description of the Series and suggestions for replicating it in other locales.
Ethical issues in research with dementia patients
- Authors:
- BERGHMANS Ron L.P., TER MEULEN Rudd H.J.
- Journal article citation:
- International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, 10(8), 1995, pp.647-651.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
The conduct of scientific research involving dementia patients is an ethically complex issue. Increased insight into the causes and aetiology of this condition can be of paramount importance for future patients and society as a whole. However, the rights and interests of vulnerable and incompetent persons as subjects in research make ethical boundaries imperative. A distinction should be made between research that may directly be of benefit to the subject (therapeutic research) and research in which no direct benefit for the patient can reasonably be expected (non-therapeutic research). The majority of the research with dementia patients falls within the latter category. Several ethical issues are discussed, and special attention is paid to the ethical justification of non-therapeutic research involving incompetent subjects suffering from dementia. Five conditions that should be met in order to make this kind of research ethically acceptable are formulated.
The Scottish parliament passes an Adults with Incapacity Bill
- Author:
- BRITTON Alison
- Journal article citation:
- Generations Review, 10(2), June 2000, pp.12-14.
- Publisher:
- British Society of Gerontology
Provides a general overview of the Adults with Incapacity (Scotland) Bill.
Difficult decisions: what are a person's 'best interests'?
- Author:
- STOKES Graham
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Dementia Care, 9(3), May 2001, pp.25-28.
- Publisher:
- Hawker
Much dementia care practice is founded on an assumption of the person's 'best interests' but these are often far from easy to determine. Argues that care plans must be founded on agreed and conspicuous safeguards which are not only ethical but also easily understood and administered.
Handle with care
- Author:
- SCHWEHR Belinda
- Journal article citation:
- Local Government Chronicle, 14.4.00, 2000, p.10.
- Publisher:
- Emap Business
In part two of her series on human rights and social services, the author warns departments to reform procedures now.
A multidisciplinary ethics teaching conference on a geropsychiatric service
- Author:
- MORROW-HOWELL Nancy
- Journal article citation:
- Gerontologist, 39(1), February 1999, pp.105-108.
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
This article describes an ethics case conference on a multidisciplinary geropsychiatric service in the USA and its unique clinical, training and research benefits. Describes the structure of the conference, the major topics addressed, the perceived advantages and the research implications. Concludes that the care of older patients, the education of students and trainees interested in ageing issues and cutting-edge geriatric research are all advanced by such a conference.
Focus on the North West
- Author:
- JACKSON Catherine
- Journal article citation:
- Mental Health Care, 2(3), November 1998, pp.83-85.
- Publisher:
- Pavilion
Discusses how trusts and health authorities in the North West region are breaking ground in mental health practice. The examples of good practice include user panels, treatment of personality disorder, homeless initiatives and an arts based therapy programme.
End-of-life decisions in the home care setting
- Author:
- SOSKIS Carole W.
- Journal article citation:
- Social Work in Health Care, 25(1/2), 1997, pp.107-116.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia, USA
Discusses the issue of advance directives, which allow a person to record preferences for end-of-life care in case of incapacity, in home care. Thirty home care clients, who were either elderly or persons with AIDS, were offered the opportunity to execute individualised advance directives and to include issues of specific importance to them. Twenty-three completed and signed their documents; nearly all expressed wishes, fears, and concerns that are both not always adequately addressed and not necessarily capable of "yes" or "no" answers. These are discussed and explained, with guidelines for clinicians.