Special Situations That Agonize Us in Caring for the Elderly

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Special Situations That Agonize Us in Caring for the Elderly

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Publication Date

10-21-2022

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Keywords

ethics, aging, elderly, managed care

Disciplines

Bioethics and Medical Ethics

Description

In this interactive session, participants explore several unique situations that face clinicians and families in the care of aging patients that bring into tension the principles for respect of autonomy, beneficence, and professionalism/clinical integrity. Dr, Hodges describes how to balance core ethical prinicples to arrive at a care plan that can be both ethically justified and practically managed.

Department

Biomedical Ethics

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Curtis R. Holzgang, M.D., MACP Visiting Scholar

Special Situations That Agonize Us in Caring for the Elderly

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