Ethics in Community-Based Elder Care

Caring for elders outside of institutions is the fastest growing sector of US health care. Building on their research study at the Park Ridge Center, editors Holstein and Mitzen, together with a team of experts, examine the complexities involved in developing an ethics for community-based long-term care. They also challenge policymakers to make home care a more viable option for older people in need. Chapters address many of the ethical and practical problems that arise in the care of older people with physical and mental disabilities--including how to allocate scarce funds, how to keep good caregivers, how to balance concerns of autonomy, risk and safety, and worker stress. The volume is an excellent resource for practitioners, policymakers, and students.

List of contents

Contributors

Preface

Part I: Introduction

1. Elders in the Community: Moral Lives, Moral Quandaries, Martha B. Holstein & Phyllis Mitzen

Part II: Background/Theory

2. Ethics & Aging: A Historical Perspective, Brian F. Hofland
3. Bringing Ethics Home: A New Look at Ethics in the Home and the Community, Martha B. Holstein
4. The Ethical Importance of Home Care, Mark Waymack
5. An Ethic of Care, Joan C. Tronto
6. Old Ethical Frameworks: What Works, What Doesn't?, Mark Waymack

Part III: Organizations/Care Providers/Care Receivers

7. Creating an Ethical Organization, David M. McCurdy
8. Organizational Ethics in a Nonprofit Agency: Changing Practice, Enduring Values, Phyllis Mitzen
9. Ethics in Clinical Practice with Older Adults: Recognizing Biases and Respecting Boundaries, Robyn L. Golden & Sallie Sonneborn
10. Ethics and the Frontline Worker: A Challenge for the 21st Century, Robyn I. Stone & Yoshiko Yamada
11. When the Helper Needs Help: A Social Worker's Experience in Receiving Home Care, Nan G. O'Connor
12. Care at Home: Virtue in Multigenerational Households, Hilde Lindemann Nelson & James Lindemann Nelson

Part IV: Practice

13. Mapping the Jungle: A Proposed Method for Ethical Decision Making in Geriatric Social Work, David Fireman, Sharon Dornberg-Lee, & Lisa Moss
14. Adult Day Services: Ethics and Daily Life, Pat Stacy Cohen
15. Is Home Care Always the Best Care?, Daniel Kuhn
16. A Good Death? Finding a Balance Between the Interests of Patients and Caregivers, Stephen Ellingson & Jon D. Fuller
17. Case Managers Meeting to Discuss Ethics, Gail McClelland
18. Who's Safe? Who's Sorry?: The Duty to Protect the Safety of HCBS Consumers, Rosalie A. Kane & Carrie A. Levin
19. Addressing Prejudice: A Layered Analysis, David E. Guinn
20. Cross-Cultural Geriatric Ethics: Negotiating Our Differences, Harry R. Moody

Part V: Policy

21. The Science and Ethics of Long-Term Care, Larry Polivka
22. Paid Family Caregiving: A Practical and Ethical Conundrum, Martha B. Holstein and Phyllis Mitzen
The Case Against Paid Family Caregivers: Ethical and Practical Issues, C. Jean Blaser Payments to Families Who Provide Care: An Option That Should be Available, Lori Simon-Rusinowitz, Kevin J. Mahoney, and A.E. Benjamin
23. Ethics, the State, and Public Policy: From the Inside, From the Outside, June L. Noel

Index

About the author

Martha B. Holstein, PhD, is an Associate for Research at the Park Ridge Center for the Study of Health, Faith, and Ethics in Chicago, where her focus is applied ethics in health care and other settings.

Product details

• Authors: Holstein, Martha B. Holstein
• Assisted by: Martha B Holstein (Editor), Martha B. Holstein (Editor), Phyllis B Mitzen (Editor), Phyllis B Acsw Mitzen (Editor), Phyllis B. Mitzen (Editor), Phyllis B. ACSW LCSW Mitzen (Editor)
• Publisher: Springer Publishing Company
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 05.09.2000
• EAN: 9780826100894
• ISBN: 978-0-8261-0089-4
• No. of pages: 336
• Dimensions: 156 mm x 234 mm x 18 mm
• Weight: 512 g
• Subject: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General