Medical Ethics Elderly

Chapter 17. Ethical Issues in the Care of Older Persons

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The ethics of medicine is based on four principles: autonomy, beneficence, nonmaleficence, and justice, which are geared toward maximizing benefits over harm and doing the greatest good for the greatest number. Autonomy refers to one's right to …

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Ethical Issues in Geriatric Care. Clinically, the long-awaited baby boom bulge—the “pig in the python”—presents little that is new to physicians; only that there are more of them and they’re living longer with the chronic …

What is the ethics of ageing? | Journal of Medical Ethics

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Subfields in applied ethics typically fall into four categories: socially important domain of enquiry (eg, procreative ethics, environmental ethics and clinical ethics), …

Ethical issues in geriatrics: a guide for clinicians - PubMed

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Because of demographic trends, it is reasonable to expect that clinicians will care for an increasing number of elderly persons with challenging medical and psychosocial …