Abstract
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?
Publisher
Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Subject
Health Policy,Issues, ethics and legal aspects,Health (social science)
Cited by
6 articles.
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