Ethical and legal issues in long-term care: food for futuristic thought.
The nursing home is a community, albeit an artificial one, where strangers come together. Ethicists are now giving thought to the nature of that community and the obligations of people within it to each other.
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D016223:Advance Directives; D003657:Decision Making; D004991:Ethics, Institutional; D033161:Government Regulation; D006699:Home Care Services; D006801:Humans; D007872:Legal Guardians; D016743:Mental Competency; D009735:Nursing Homes / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence / Q000458:organization & administration / Q000592:standards*; D010358:Patient Participation; D028701:Patient Rights; D011787:Quality of Health Care / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D012149:Restraint, Physical; D016414:Resuscitation Orders; D012945:Social Values; D016312:Treatment Refusal; D014481:United States; D028761:Withholding Treatment