A wide variety of legal issues surround caring for older individuals. Health and human service practioners need to plan, provide and evaluate geriatric care, while also understanding public policies. Legal knowledge is an essential part of caring for the elderly. Students and professionals must be able to deliver appropriate care while also being aware of any legal, ethical and political issues that may arise. Legal Aspects of Elder Care provides a clear overview of geriatric policies and laws, enabling the reader to use informed decision-making with older clients.

Legal Aspects of Elder Care

Business & Money

Kapp, Marshall B.

Management & Leadership

Jones& Bartlett Learning

Kapp (community health and psychiatry, Wright State U. School of Medicine) presents this textbook for use by instructors with or without prior legal teaching expertise and experience. The text covers a number of legal issues in gerontology, including discrimination based on age, informed consent and refusal, legal interventions for incapacitated older adults, regulation of geriatric services and settings, confidentiality, family law issues, death and dying, and research with older human subjects. Suitable for use in lecture courses, seminars and tutorials at various levels, with students in social work, nursing, sociology, psychology, health and human resource services administration, philosophy, and medicine. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Lessons in Law and Aging: A Tool for Educators and Students (Springer Series on Ethics, Law, and Aging)

Medical Books

Nursing

Springer Pub. Co

Geriatrics and the law: Patient rights and professional responsibilities

Medicine

Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio. Manual defining key concepts as they relate to gerontology and geriatrics, for health, ethical, or legal professionals who work with the elderly. Concise encyclopedic format explains terms such as conservatorship, abandonment, and vegetative state.

Key Words in Ethics, Law, and Aging: A Guide to Contemporary Usage

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Haddad, Amy Marie, Kapp, Marshall B.

Ethical and Legal Issues in Home Health Care: Case Studies and Analyses

Haddad, Amy Marie

Philosophy

APPLETON LANGE

Book by Kapp, Marshall B., Piers, Harvey E., Jr.

Legal and Ethical Aspects of Health Care for the Elderly

Piers, Harvey E., Jr.

Health Administration Pr

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