📗 Libro en inglés DEPENDENCE AND AUTONOMY IN OLD AGE (AN EHICAL FRAMEWORK FOR LONG- TERM CARE)

Respecting the autonomy of disabled people is an important ethical issue for providers of long-term care. In this influential book, George Agich abandons comfortable abstractions to reveal the concrete threats to personal autonomy in this setting, where ethical conflict, dilemma and tragedy are inescapable. He argues that liberal accounts of autonomy and individual rights are insufficient, and offers an account of autonomy that matches the realities of long-term care. The book therefore offers a framework for carers to develop an ethic of long-term care within the complex environment in which many dependent and aged people find themselves. Previously published as Autonomy and Long-term Care, this revised edition, in paperback for the first time, takes account of recent work and develops the author’s views of what autonomy means in the real world. It will have wide appeal among bioethicists and health care professionals. • Translates the abstractions of ethical analysis into the real world of long-term care • Provides an ethical framework for people caring for the elderly • Builds on the author’s earlier book Autonomy and Long-term Care, of which this is a revised edition, now in paperback for the first time