Dementia Care Work Situated Between Professional and Regulatory Codes of Ethics
| Autor: | Kjetil G. Lundberg |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
| Předmět: |
medicine.medical_specialty
030504 nursing Sociology and Political Science business.industry Nursing ethics media_common.quotation_subject education Competence (law) 03 medical and health sciences Philosophy Dignity 0302 clinical medicine Nursing Health care Situated Medicine Care work 030212 general & internal medicine 0305 other medical science business Autonomy Ethical code media_common |
| Zdroj: | Ethics and Social Welfare. 12:133-146 |
| ISSN: | 1749-6543 1749-6535 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/17496535.2017.1321679 |
| Popis: | Safety, dignity and autonomy are keywords in care work for older people. Dementia, however, complicates the relationship between care workers and care receivers, in part because it affects memory, thought, perception, reasoning and speech. Thus it potentially influences the voice and consent competence of the individual. In such contexts, care work can become ethically challenging. This paper investigates how care workers in social care services ensure the safety and well-being of those receiving care and how these responsibilities must be weighed against the sometimes conflicting duty of upholding and respecting civil rights and individual choices when the older person has dementia. The empirical stage is home care and nursing home services in Norway. These settings provide a comparative foundation. Two different forms of ethical orientation are found to be active in the care workers’ accounts in this study: ethics situated in the care work profession, and ‘regulatory codes of ethics’ situated in... |
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