Time to decide: a seminar at the Oxford Centre on Population Ageing

Authors:
HARDING Tessa, HERBERT Gill, HARPER Sarah
Publisher:
Help the Aged
Publication year:
2000
Pagination:
14p.
Place of publication:
London

This jointly sponsored seminar discussed the legal and professional frameworks for decision making with regard to older people. The right of older people to make their own decisions is rarely discussed, but in fact is very important to them. The complexities of the issues involved including how, where and with whom to live, to be treated or not, the different attitude to risk taking, control over finances, choice after death and so on, were confirmed by the case studies cited. Common practice, the impacts on carers, and supported decision making were covered.

Subject terms:
older people, risk, self-determination, carers, death, decision making, financial abuse;
ISBN print:
0 905852 28 1

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