Special Situations That Agonize Us in Caring for the Elderly

Authors

Marian Hodges, Providence

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Publication Date

10-21-2022

Keywords

ethics, aging, elderly, managed care

Disciplines

Bioethics and Medical Ethics

Abstract

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.

Specialty

Biomedical Ethics

Comments

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