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Record Nr.

UNINA9910782673503321

Titolo

Ethics, law, and aging review [[electronic resource] ] . Volume 11 Deinstitutionalizing long-term care : making legal strides, avoiding policy errors / / Marshall B. Kapp, editor

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, NY, : Springer Publishing Company, Inc., c2005

ISBN

1-281-80676-5

9786611806767

0-8261-1653-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (137 p.)

Collana

Ethics, law, and aging review ; ; v. 11

Altri autori (Persone)

KappMarshall B

Disciplina

362.6

Soggetti

Community health services - United States

Long-term care of the sick - Government policy - United States

Long-term care of the sick - Law and legislation - United States

Older people - Legal status, laws, etc - United States

Older people - Medical care - Law and legislation - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Contributors; Preface; Part I. Deinstitutionalizing Long-Term Care: Making Legal Strides, Avoiding Policy Errors; Chapter 1 Community-Based Alternatives for Older Adults With Serious Mental Illness: The Olmstead Decision and Deinstitutionalization of Nursing Homes; Chapter 2 Rebalancing State Long-Term Care Systems; Chapter 3 The Realpolitik of Deinstitutionalizing Long-Term Care: Olmstead Meets Reality; Chapter 4 Guilty of Mental Illness: What the ADA Says About the Use of Prisons as Long-Term-Care Facilities for People With Psychiatric Disabilities

Chapter 5 When Consumer-Directed Alternatives to Nursing Homes Fail: Assigning Legal and Ethical Responsibility in Worst-Case Situations Chapter 6 The Ethics of Medicare Privatization; Part II. Independent Article; Chapter 7 Cross-Cultural Aspects of Geriatric Decision-Making Capacity; Book Reviews; Books Received; Index;

Sommario/riassunto

We are now engaged in a movement that de-emphasizes the reliance on institutional forms of long-term care for disabled persons needing



ongoing daily living assistance and converges on the use of non-institutional service providers and residential settings. In this latest edition of Ethics, Law and Aging Review , Kapp and ten expert contributors help us examine the forces and potential for changing the long-term care industry (both positively and negatively) and address this paradigm shift from the in personal, public psychiatric institutions of the 1960's and 1970's to the present-day assisted