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About three years ago, my 91-year-old great-aunt was removed from the nursing home where she had been for several years and placed in intensive care at a major hospital. This was the last of several acute episodes suffered by a woman with significant mental impairment and physical disability. Prior to being placed in the nursing home, like many partially disabled elderly, she had found it difficult to get adequate home care and difficult to get an appropriate nursing home placement. Only in acute episodes did our health care system respond with extensive and expensive services. When I phoned her daughter, I was assured that the doctors were ‘trying everything.’
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Daniels, N. (1987). Equal Opportunity, Justice, and Health Care for the Elderly: A Prudential Account. In: Spicker, S.F., Ingman, S.R., Lawson, I.R. (eds) Ethical Dimensions of Geriatric Care. Philosophy and Medicine, vol 25. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-3391-0_13
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