Ethical Issues in Mobile Psychiatric Treatment with Homebound Elderly Patients: The Psychogeriatric Assessment and Treatment in City Housing Experience

Autor:	John L. Carroll, Peter V. Rabins, Mary M. Miner, David M. Blass, Beatrice M. Robbins, Rebecca M. Rye, Sharon Handel
Rok vydání:	2006
Předmět:	Geriatrics medicine.medical_specialty Public housing business.industry education Beneficence Bioethics Homebound Persons Health care medicine Confidentiality Geriatrics and Gerontology business Psychiatry Geriatric psychiatry
Zdroj:	Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. 54:843-848
ISSN:	1532-5415 0002-8614
DOI:	10.1111/j.1532-5415.2006.00706.x
Popis:	Unique and challenging ethical difficulties arise during mobile psychiatric treatment of elderly patients. This article outlines and analyzes five of these challenges that have been encountered during nearly 20 years of experience with the Psychogeriatric Assessment and Treatment in City Housing Program in Baltimore, Maryland. The ethical challenges reviewed are: establishing the treatment contract versus the right to refuse treatment, protecting confidentiality versus patient protection, protecting autonomy versus asserting beneficence, treatment termination versus open-ended treatment, and cost versus benefit of care. Ethical challenges with homebound elderly patients are unique because of patient characteristics as well as features of the treatment environment.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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