Legal Anxieties and End-Of-Life Care in Nursing Homes. Legal Anxieties and End-Of-Life Care in Nursing Homes.

Legal Anxieties and End-Of-Life Care in Nursing Homes‪.‬

Issues in Law & Medicine 2003, Fall, 19, 2

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Abstract: Many persons spend their final days as nursing home residents. It has been suggested that one set of factors powerfully and unfavorably influencing the quality of end-of-life (EOL) care provided in American nursing homes involves the anxieties that nursing home providers experience regarding potential negative legal entanglements and repercussions associated with the provision of EOL care to their residents. This article critically examines the hypothesis that the quality of EOL medical care provided in nursing homes often is skewed in a perverse way because providers are driven unduly by legal apprehensions. The author offers practice and policy recommendations for trying to resolve or mitigate the tension present between legally defensive practice (real or perceived) by nursing homes, on one hand, and ethically optimal EOL care, on the other. **********

GENRE
Professional & Technical
RELEASED
2003
September 22
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
48
Pages
PUBLISHER
National Legal Center for the Medically Dependent & Disabled, Inc.
SELLER
The Gale Group, Inc., a Delaware corporation and an affiliate of Cengage Learning, Inc.
SIZE
308.7
KB

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