Perceptions of long-term care, autonomy, and dignity, by residents, family and caregivers: The beijing experience
Journal of Medicine and Philosophy 32 (5):425 – 445 (2007)
| Abstract | This article documents the results of a study on the perceptions of long-term elder care in Beijing in the People's Republic of China by those most intimately involved. The study asked a sample of elderly, family members, and health care professionals, all of whom are involved in care at a variety of long-term care facilities in Beijing, about their perceptions of the care given at these facilities from their particular standpoints as regards issues such as the quality and ideal location of care, decision-making regarding the care receiving, who should be responsible for the financing of care, and the meaning of dignity for the elderly in these facilities. The results showed adherence to traditional family values at least on one level regarding the ideal location of care being with the family and in the home, but also the desire to pass on financing of long-term care facilities and the health care they provide the elderly on to the government. These results are not altogether surprising, but they also clearly demonstrate the larger conflict between traditional views about morality and economic considerations regarding health care financing in the China. | |||||||||
| Keywords | No keywords specified (fix it) | |||||||||
| Categories | ||||||||||
| Options |
|
|||||||||
Download options| PhilPapers Archive |
Upload a copy of this paper Check publisher's policy on self-archival Papers currently archived: 5,679 |
| External links |
 |
| Through your library | Configure |
Similar books and articlesMadison Powers (1997). Managed Care: How Economic Incentive Reforms Went Wrong. Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal 7 (4):353-360.
Julia Tao Lai Po Wah (2007). Dignity in Long-Term Care for Older Persons: A Confucian Perspective. Journal of Medicine and Philosophy 32 (5):465 – 481.
David E. Weissman & Sandra Matson (1999). Pain Assessment and Management in the Long-Term Care Setting. Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics 20 (1).
George J. Agich (1993). Autonomy and Long-Term Care. Oxford University Press.
Mark G. Kuczewski (1999). Ethics in Long-Term Care: Are the Principles Different? Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics 20 (1).
H. Tristram Engelhardt Jr (2007). Long-Term Care: The Family, Post-Modernity, and Conflicting Moral Life-Worlds. Journal of Medicine and Philosophy 32 (5):519 – 536.
Ruiping Fan (2007). Which Care? Whose Responsibility? And Why Family? A Confucian Account of Long-Term Care for the Elderly. Journal of Medicine and Philosophy 32 (5):495 – 517.
Eugene V. Boisaubin, Adeline Chu & Janine M. Catalano (2007). Perceptions of Long-Term Care, Autonomy, and Dignity, by Residents, Family and Care-Givers: The Houston Experience. Journal of Medicine and Philosophy 32 (5):447 – 464.
Ho Mun Chan & Sam Pang (2007). Long-Term Care: Dignity, Autonomy, Family Integrity, and Social Sustainability: The Hong Kong Experience. Journal of Medicine and Philosophy 32 (5):401 – 424.
Analytics
Monthly downloads |
Added to index2009-01-28Total downloads11 ( #99,523 of 549,087 )Recent downloads (6 months)0How can I increase my downloads? |
My notes
Discussion
