Ethics, law, and aging review [electronic resource] : Volume 11, Deinstitutionalizing long-term care : making legal strides, avoiding policy errors / Marshall B. Kapp, editor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kapp, Marshall B.

Series:

Ethics, law, and aging review ; v. 11.

Ethics, law, and aging review ; v. 11

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Community health services--United States.

Community health services.

Long-term care of the sick--Government policy--United States.

Long-term care of the sick.

Long-term care of the sick--Law and legislation--United States.

Older people--Legal status, laws, etc--United States.

Older people.

Older people--Medical care--Law and legislation--United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (137 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Springer Publishing Company, Inc., c2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

We are now engaged in a movement that de-emphasizes the reliance on institutional forms of long-term care for disabled persons needing ongoing daily living assistance and converges on the use of non-institutional service providers and residential settings. In this latest edition of Ethics, Law and Aging Review , Kapp and ten expert contributors help us examine the forces and potential for changing the long-term care industry (both positively and negatively) and address this paradigm shift from the in personal, public psychiatric institutions of the 1960's and 1970's to the present-day assisted

Contents:

Contents; Contributors; Preface; Part I. Deinstitutionalizing Long-Term Care: Making Legal Strides, Avoiding Policy Errors; Chapter 1 Community-Based Alternatives for Older Adults With Serious Mental Illness: The Olmstead Decision and Deinstitutionalization of Nursing Homes; Chapter 2 Rebalancing State Long-Term Care Systems; Chapter 3 The Realpolitik of Deinstitutionalizing Long-Term Care: Olmstead Meets Reality; Chapter 4 Guilty of Mental Illness: What the ADA Says About the Use of Prisons as Long-Term-Care Facilities for People With Psychiatric Disabilities

Chapter 5 When Consumer-Directed Alternatives to Nursing Homes Fail: Assigning Legal and Ethical Responsibility in Worst-Case Situations Chapter 6 The Ethics of Medicare Privatization; Part II. Independent Article; Chapter 7 Cross-Cultural Aspects of Geriatric Decision-Making Capacity; Book Reviews; Books Received; Index;

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-281-80676-5

9786611806767

0-8261-1653-1

OCLC:

437109869