Incorporating Feminist Ethics Into Case Management Programs

Abstract

This article focuses on the potential for and value of including a feminist ethics paradigm within long-term care case management policies and programs. We describe our experience as evaluators of a pilot case management program in a single state. Because this project was newand many of the administrative details were left open at its initiation, it offered a useful laboratory for examining the emergence of elements that were more consistent with the feminist ethics paradigm versus a regulatory system approach to social services. Finally, we describe ways to assure that feminist ethics and regulatory system approaches are appropriately balanced in case management programs.