Medical Ethics and the Elderly, 3rd Edition

✍ Scribed by Rai, Gurcharan S

• Publisher: CRC Press
• Year: 2016
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 189
• Edition: 3
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This ground-breaking and highly regarded book explores the central ethical issues arising from the day-to-day care of older patients. This Third Edition incorporates key recent developments including guidance from the General Medical Council and the National Council for Palliative Care on consent and refusal of treatment, The Mental Capacity Act 2005 and the NHS Code of Practice on Confidentiality. The key aim of the book remains to provide a practical guide for health professionals who are involved with doctors in making difficult decisions. Medical students who now study medical ethics and their application in the day-to-day management of patients as part of the undergraduate curriculum will also benefit

✦ Table of Contents

Content: Principles of medical ethics. Confidentiality. Informed consent. Decision on life-sustaining therapy: nutrition and help. Ethical issues and expenditure on health and social care. Cardiopulmonary resuscitation. Mental incapacity and best interests. Advance directives. Ethical issues in stroke management. Ethics of driving assessment in dementia: care, competence and communication. Achieving a good death. Ethical issues in dementia. The use of restraints. Quality of life in healthcare decisions.

✦ Subjects

Medical ethics -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.;Older people -- Medical care -- Moral and ethical aspects -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.;BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Business Ethics.