Helping Residents Live at Risk
Residents in long-term care facilities and rehab hospitals sometimes ask healthcare professionals (HCPs) to help them do things that HCPs judge to be on balance harmful. A person with respiratory problems may ask for a cigarette, a diabetic for alcohol, a dysphagiac for food or fluids by mouth, a pe...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge Univ. Press
2003
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Cambridge quarterly of healthcare ethics
Year: 2003, Volume: 12, Issue: 1, Pages: 83-90 |
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| Summary: | Residents in long-term care facilities and rehab hospitals sometimes ask healthcare professionals (HCPs) to help them do things that HCPs judge to be on balance harmful. A person with respiratory problems may ask for a cigarette, a diabetic for alcohol, a dysphagiac for food or fluids by mouth, a person at risk for falling for her walker, and so on. These requests raise two kinds of problems. The first pits residents against HCPs. Should HCPs ever help residents do what they consider harmful? The second pits HCPs against HCPs. If HCPs disagree among themselves—some thinking that the resident should receive the assistance, others thinking not—what should be done? |
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| ISSN: | 1469-2147 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Cambridge quarterly of healthcare ethics
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/S096318010312110X |