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| Preface | |
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| A Note on Legal Citations and Legal Sources | |
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| About the Author | |
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| Abbreviations Used in This Text | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Law as a Social Tool | |
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| Legal Status of Older Persons | |
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| Does the Law Accomplish Its Goals? | |
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| Looking to the Future | |
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| The Law and Social Values | |
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| Content of the Law and the Role of Age | |
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| Notes | |
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| The Right to Make Decisions: Informed Consent and Refusal | |
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| Informed Consent | |
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| Risk Management Implications | |
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| Decision-Making Capacity | |
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| Notes | |
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| Legal Aspects of Death and Dying | |
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| Legal Liability Anxieties in the Intensive Care Unit | |
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| Putting Legal Risks Into Perspective | |
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| Futile Treatment | |
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| Artifical Nutrition and Hydration | |
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| Advance Health Care Directives | |
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| Assisted Death | |
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| Euthanasia | |
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| Pain Control for Dying Patients | |
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| Notes | |
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| Legal Interventions for Incapacitated Older Persons | |
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| Background | |
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| Specific Intervention Mechanisms | |
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| Evaluating Intervention Strategies | |
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| Regulation and Financing of Geriatric Services and Settings | |
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| Home Care | |
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| Assisted Living | |
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| Continuing Care Retirement Communities or Life Care Communities | |
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| Hospice | |
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| Adult Day Care | |
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| Nursing Homes | |
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| Nonprofit Nursing Homes | |
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| Financing Long-Term Care | |
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| Notes | |
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| Older Individuals and the Right to Privacy | |
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| Organizational Principles | |
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| State Practice Acts | |
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| Reporting Medical Conditions | |
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| Family Caregiving and Confidentiality | |
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| Additional Information Sources | |
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| Notes | |
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| Research Participation and Older Persons | |
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| Regulatory Overview | |
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| Decisional Capacity and Research Participation | |
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| Are New Federal Regulations Needed? | |
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| State Regulation | |
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| Notes | |
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| Family Law Issues and Older Persons | |
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| Family Caregivers' Legal Concerns | |
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| Family and Medical Leave Act | |
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| Elder Mistreatment | |
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| Acknowledgment of, and Responses to, Elder Mistreatment | |
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| State Approaches to Elder Mistreatment | |
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| Grandparents' Rights | |
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| Kinship Care | |
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| Notes | |
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| Protection of Older Consumers | |
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| The Regulatory Landscape | |
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| Notes | |
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| Age Discrimination and the Law | |
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| What Is the Relevance of a Person's Age? | |
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| Age Discrimination in Employment | |
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| Disability Discrimination | |
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| Housing | |
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| Health Care Rationing | |
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| Voting | |
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| Discrimination in Favor of Older Persons | |
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| Notes | |
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| Index | |