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Legal aspects of health care for the elderly : an annotated bibliography / compiled by Marshall B. Kapp.

Summary:

Topical listing of 617 selected references to books, chapters, journal articles, and reports published between Jan. 1, 1980, and Aug. 31, 1987. Intended for professional personnel and for the benefit of the older health care consumer. Entries give bibliographical information and annotation. Appendix gives information about sources. Author, subject indexes.

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Record details

ISBN: 0313261598
ISBN: 9780313261596
Physical Description: xvi, 166 pages ; 24 cm.
Publisher: New York : Greenwood Press, 1988.

Content descriptions

General Note:

Includes indexes.

Formatted Contents Note:

General sources on law, health care, and aging -- Informed consent, truth-telling, and mental competency -- Financing health care for the elderly and legal implications of cost containment efforts -- Disability determinations -- Elder abuse and neglect -- Involuntary commitment, guardianship, protective services, nursing home placement, restraints, and representative payees -- Provider regulations and standards of care -- Decision making for critically ill and suicidal patients -- Resuscitation -- Advance planning for disability -- Defining death, autopsies, and organ donations -- Research with older human subjects -- Legal and other advocacy services for the older health care consumer.