Ethics in Community-Based Elder Care

Martha B. Holstein, PhD, is an Associate for Research at the Park Ridge Center for the Study of Health, Faith, and Ethics in Chicago, where her focus is applied ethics in health care and other settings. Phyllis Mitzen, ACSW, LCSW, has been at the Council for Jewish Elderly since 1980, where she is currently Director of Development.

Contributors

Preface

Part I: Introduction
Elders in the Community: Moral Lives, Moral Quandaries, Martha B. Holstein & Phyllis Mitzen

Part II: Background/Theory
Ethics & Aging: A Historical Perspective, Brian F. Hofland
Bringing Ethics Home: A New Look at Ethics in the Home and the Community, Martha B. Holstein
The Ethical Importance of Home Care, Mark Waymack
An Ethic of Care, Joan C. Tronto
Old Ethical Frameworks: What Works, What Doesn’t?, Mark Waymack

Part III: Organizations/Care Providers/Care Receivers
Creating an Ethical Organization, David M. McCurdy
Organizational Ethics in a Nonprofit Agency: Changing Practice, Enduring Values, Phyllis Mitzen
Ethics in Clinical Practice with Older Adults: Recognizing Biases and Respecting Boundaries, Robyn L. Golden & Sallie Sonneborn
Ethics and the Frontline Worker: A Challenge for the 21st Century, Robyn I. Stone & Yoshiko Yamada
When the Helper Needs Help: A Social Worker’s Experience in Receiving Home Care, Nan G. O’Connor
Care at Home: Virtue in Multigenerational Households, Hilde Lindemann Nelson & James Lindemann Nelson

Part IV: Practice
Mapping the Jungle: A Proposed Method for Ethical Decision Making in Geriatric Social Work, David Fireman, Sharon Dornberg-Lee, & Lisa Moss
Adult Day Services: Ethics and Daily Life, Pat Stacy Cohen
Is Home Care Always the Best Care?, Daniel Kuhn
A Good Death? Finding a Balance Between the Interests of Patients and Caregivers, Stephen Ellingson & Jon D. Fuller
Case Managers Meeting to Discuss Ethics, Gail McClelland
Who’s Safe? Who’s Sorry?: The Duty to Protect the Safety of HCBS Consumers, Rosalie A. Kane & Carrie A. Levin
Addressing Prejudice: A Layered Analysis, David E. Guinn
Cross-Cultural Geriatric Ethics: Negotiating Our Differences, Harry R. Moody

Part V: Policy
The Science and Ethics of Long-Term Care, Larry Polivka
Paid Family Caregiving: A Practical and Ethical Conundrum, Martha B. Holstein and Phyllis Mitzen
The Case Against Paid Family Caregivers: Ethical and Practical Issues, C. Jean Blaser Payments to Families Who Provide Care: An Option That Should be Available, Lori Simon-Rusinowitz, Kevin J. Mahoney, and A.E. Benjamin
Ethics, the State, and Public Policy: From the Inside, From the Outside, June L. Noel



Index