Ethics in Community-Based Elder Care

by Martha B. Holstein PhD (Editor), Phyllis B. Mitzen ACSW, LCSW (Editor)

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780826100894
Publisher:	Springer Publishing Company
Publication date:	09/05/2000
Series:	Springer Series on Ethics, Law, and Aging
Edition description:	First Edition
Pages:	336
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.10(h) x 0.80(d)

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.

Phyllis Mitzen, ACSW, LCSW, has been at the Council for Jewish Elderly since 1980, where she is currently Director of Development.

Table of Contents

Contributors
Preface
Part I: Introduction
• Elders in the Community: Moral Lives, Moral Quandaries, Martha B. Holstein & Phyllis Mitzen
Part II: Background/Theory
• Ethics & Aging: A Historical Perspective, Brian F. Hofland
• Bringing Ethics Home: A New Look at Ethics in the Home and the Community, Martha B. Holstein
• The Ethical Importance of Home Care, Mark Waymack
• An Ethic of Care, Joan C. Tronto
• Old Ethical Frameworks: What Works, What Doesn’t?, Mark Waymack
Part III: Organizations/Care Providers/Care Receivers
• Creating an Ethical Organization, David M. McCurdy
• Organizational Ethics in a Nonprofit Agency: Changing Practice, Enduring Values, Phyllis Mitzen
• Ethics in Clinical Practice with Older Adults: Recognizing Biases and Respecting Boundaries, Robyn L. Golden & Sallie Sonneborn
• Ethics and the Frontline Worker: A Challenge for the 21st Century, Robyn I. Stone & Yoshiko Yamada
• When the Helper Needs Help: A Social Worker’s Experience in Receiving Home Care, Nan G. O’Connor
• Care at Home: Virtue in Multigenerational Households, Hilde Lindemann Nelson & James Lindemann Nelson
Part IV: Practice
• Mapping the Jungle: A Proposed Method for Ethical Decision Making in Geriatric Social Work, David Fireman, Sharon Dornberg-Lee, & Lisa Moss
• Adult Day Services: Ethics and Daily Life, Pat Stacy Cohen
• Is Home Care Always the Best Care?, Daniel Kuhn
• A Good Death? Finding a Balance Between the Interests of Patients and Caregivers, Stephen Ellingson & Jon D. Fuller
• Case Managers Meeting to Discuss Ethics, Gail McClelland
• Who’s Safe? Who’s Sorry?: The Duty to Protect the Safety of HCBS Consumers, Rosalie A. Kane & Carrie A. Levin
• Addressing Prejudice: A Layered Analysis, David E. Guinn
• Cross-Cultural Geriatric Ethics: Negotiating Our Differences, Harry R. Moody
Part V: Policy
• The Science and Ethics of Long-Term Care, Larry Polivka
• 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
• Ethics, the State, and Public Policy: From the Inside, From the Outside, June L. Noel

Index