Difficult healthcare transitions: Ethical analysis and policy recommendations for unrepresented patients

Background:In Ontario, Canada, patients who lack decision-making capacity and have no family or friends to act as substitute decision-makers currently rely on the Office of the Public Guardian and Trustee to consent to long-term care (nursing home) placement, but they have no legal representative fo...

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Authors: Abdool, Rosalind (Author) ; Szego, Michael (Author) ; Buchman, Daniel (Author) ; Justason, Leah (Author) ; Bean, Sally (Author) ; Heesters, Ann (Author) ; Kaufman, Hannah (Author) ; Parke, Bob (Author) ; Wagner, Frank (Author) ; Gibson, Jennifer (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Sage 2016
In: Nursing ethics
Year: 2016, Volume: 23, Issue: 7, Pages: 770-783
Further subjects:B Ethics
B unrepresented patients
B Bioethics
B placement
B healthcare transitions
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