Ethics and Long-Term Care: A Catalogue of Issues

摘要

Those who plan or provide long-term care cannot avoid complicated ethical issues. Indeed, piecemeal discussions of some of these issues regularly appear in the popular press as well as in the professional literature. Rather than permitting the ethical agenda for long-term care to be set by others, leaders in the long-term care field should actively identify and explore the relevant themes. To facilitate that work, the catalogue provides a brief but wide-ranging overview of ethical topics in long-term care. The introductory essay includes a short discussion of ethical principles, long-term care, and how the two come together.