Ethics, Law, and Aging Review, Volume 11: Deinstitutionalizing Long-Term Care: Making Legal Strides, Avoiding Policy Errors

by Kapp, Marshall B.

• ISBN13: 9780826116451
• ISBN10: 0826116450
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-10-01
• Publisher: SPRINGER PUB CO INC

Summary

Southern Illinois Univ., Carbondale. Examines current trends in geriatric care. Focuses on deinstitutionalization in favor of long-term care in residential settings. Discusses the ethics of medicare privatization, community-based alternatives for older adults, use of prisons as long-term facilities, and more. For policy makers.

Author Biography

Marshall B. Kapp is the Garwin Distinguished Professor of Law and Medicine at Southern Illinois University School of Law and School of Medicine, and Professor Emeritus from Wright State University School of Medicine.

Table of Contents

Contributors	vii
Preface	ix
Part I. Deinstitutionalizing Long-Term Care: Making Legal Strides, Avoiding Policy Errors
Chapter 1 Community-Based Alternatives for Older Adults With Serious Mental Illness: The Olmstead Decision and Deinstitutionalization of Nursing Homes	3	(20)
Stephen J. Bartels and Aricca D. Van Citters
Chapter 2 Rebalancing State Long-Term Care Systems	23	(20)
Robert L. Mollica and Susan C. Reinhard
Chapter 3 The Realpolitik of Deinstitutionalizing Long-Term Care: Olmstead Meets Reality	43	(14)
Roland Hornbostel
Chapter 4 Guilty of Mental Illness: What the ADA Says About the Use of Prisons as Long-Term-Care Facilities for People With Psychiatric Disabilities	57	(18)
Pamela S. Cohen
Chapter 5 When Consumer-Directed Alternatives to Nursing Homes Fail: Assigning Legal and Ethical Responsibility in Worst-Case Situations	75	(10)
Marshall B. Kapp
Chapter 6 The Ethics of Medicare Privatization	85	(20)
Larry Polivka
Part II. Independent Article
Chapter 7 Cross-Cultural Aspects of Geriatric Decision-Making Capacity	105	(8)
Fred A. Kobylarz, John Heath, and Jeffrey Spike
Book Reviews	113	(6)
Books Received	119	(2)
Index	121