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Legal Aspects of Elder Care

Author(s): Marshall B. Kapp, JD, MPH, Director, Center for Innovative Collaboration in Medicine & Law at Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida, Professor Emeritus, Wright State University School of Medicine, Donald P. Kent Award Recipient, Gerontological Society of America
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  • ISBN-13: 9780763756321
  • Hardcover    356 pages      © 2010
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Planning, providing, and evaluating geriatric care raises a wide variety of legal issues for health and human services practitioners and those who advocate for, develop, and enforce the public policies within which services are delivered. 

This text offers excerpts from selected statutes and regulations, judicial opinions, and the legal and health care journal literature, as well as commentary on these materials, discussion questions and hypothetical cases, and suggestions of other information sources for the teacher and student.

Ideal for courses or programs in health administration, nursing, law, ethics, social work, or gerontology, this text will stimulate class reflection and interaction regarding the meaning and relevance of key legal concepts for the present or future health care professional.

For the healthcare professional, it will inform and sensitize those who will deal with older persons about some of the current and potentially emerging legal issues they may encounter in providing services to older patients/clients, and to help them respond intelligently to legal issues and the responsibilities they impose.


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Preface  Preface  
Chapter  1  Introduction
Chapter  2  The Right to Make Decisions: Informed Consent and Refusal
Chapter  3  Legal Aspects of Death and Dying
Chapter  4  Legal Interventions for Incapacitated Older Persons
Chapter  5  Regulation and Financing of Geriatric Services and Settings
Chapter  6  Older Individuals and the Right to Privacy
Chapter  7  Research Participation and Older Persons
Chapter  8  Family Law Issues and Older Persons
Chapter  9  Protection of Older Consumers
Chapter  10  Age Discrimination and the Law
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Marshall B. Kapp, JD, MPH-Director, Center for Innovative Collaboration in Medicine & Law at Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida, Professor Emeritus, Wright State University School of Medicine, Donald P. Kent Award Recipient, Gerontological Society of America

Marshall Kapp, J.D., M.P.H., FCLM, is the Director of the new Center for Innovative Collaboration in Medicine & Law at Florida State University.  He also is Professor Emeritus from Wright State University School of Medicine and served for over 20 years as a member of the adjunct faculty at the University of Dayton School of Law.  He is the current Editor of the American College of Legal Medicine’s Journal of Legal Medicine and serves on the editorial boards of several other major journals in the health law field.  Professor Kapp is the recipient of the Gerontological Society of America’s 2003 Donald P. Kent Award for exemplifying the highest standards for professional leadership in gerontology through teaching, service, and interpretation of gerontology to the larger society. He has published and spoken extensively on topics in health law, medical ethics, and law and aging.

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  • "[Legal Aspects of Elder Care] excels in describing the legal etiology, the extent and meaning of "the law" in any of the chapter topics, and ... some of the more difficult and complex issues practitioners, scholars, and teachers will confront in the world of legal work. ...Throughout the volume, he offers provocative discussion questions, both broad and narrow, ranging from those concerning the use of age defining social values, to how to assist lederly persons and their families find competent legal counsel when needed."

    —Reviewed by Frank J. Whittington, PhD (from The Gerontologist, Vol. 49, No. 5, 2009)
     

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