tailieunhanh - Geriatrics and the Law: Understanding Patient Rights and Professional Responsibilities

Older individuals encounter a panoply of legal vicissitudes, as well as other types of challenges, in their daily lives. For older persons needing medical services, it frequently is impossible to separate the clinical aspects of care from the legal (as well as ethical, financial, and public policy) elements. Medical care of the elderly is intimately affected and extensively governed by the broad array of legal considerations that are applicable to the delivery of health services in general, and many of these considerations often are exacerbated in the care of older persons. Additionally, a variety of specific government programs has arisen for which the elderly are the primary or exclusive. | Understanding Patient Rights and Professional Responsibilities Marshall B. Kapp 4 Springer Series on Ethics Law and Aging Third Edition eriatrics and the aw Understanding Patient Rights and Professional Responsibilities Marshall B. Kapp JD MPH s Springer Publishing Company Copyright 1999 by Springer Publishing Company Inc. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means electronic mechanical photocopying recording or otherwise without the prior permission of Springer Publishing Company Inc. Springer Publishing Company Inc. 536 Broadway New York NY 10012-3955 Cover Design by Janet Joachim Aquisitions Editor Helvi Cold Production Editor J. Hurkin-Torres 99 00 01 02 03 5 4 3 2 1 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Kapp Marshall B. Geriatrics and the law understanding patient rights and professional responsibilities by Marshall B. Kapp. 3rd ed. p. cm. Springer Series on Ethics Law and Aging Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-8261-4532-9 he. 1. Geriatrics Law and legislation United States. 2. Aged- Medical care Law and legislature United States. I. Title. 1999 98-54241 0326 dc21 CIP Printed in the United States of .