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The Dilemma of Prolonged Engagement

Building Opportunities for Reciprocity Among Ethnic Female Clients and Workers in Elder Care Services

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Aging: Caring for Our Elders

Part of the book series: International Library of Ethics, Law, and the New Medicine ((LIME,volume 11))

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The rate of population aging continues to be a serious preoccupation of health care professionals and policy makers. Much has been written about the potential impact of aging on the ability of the health and social service system to respond adequately to the increased demand placed upon it by the rapidly growing population of older people (Chappell, Strain, and Blandford 1986; Rittner, and Kirk 1995). In the past decade in Canada, the question of access to community elder care services has been taken up with greater frequency in elder care research and policy initiatives, partially in response to concerns about the financial and resource strains that older people place upon the health care system. Initiatives focused upon improving access have been undertaken largely in an attempt to improve service delivery, delay institutionalization, and streamline the system, thereby increasing efficacy, reducing service duplication, and lowering costs.

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  1. School of Social Work, McGill University, Canada

    Shari Brotman (Assistant Professor)

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  1. Faculté de Médicine, Université de Montréal, Canada

    David N. Weisstub (Philippe Pinel Professor of Legal Psychiatry and Biomedical Ethics) (Philippe Pinel Professor of Legal Psychiatry and Biomedical Ethics)

  2. Neiswanger Institute for Bioethics and Health Policy, Loyola University of Chicago Medical Center, USA

    David C. Thomasma (Professor and Fr. English Chair of Medical Ethics) (Professor and Fr. English Chair of Medical Ethics)

  3. Centre for Studies on Aging, Faculty of Medicine, McGill University, Canada

    Serge Gauthier (Professor of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry) (Professor of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry)

  4. Faculty of Law, University of Sydney, Australia

    George F. Tomossy (Ross Waite Parsons Scholar) (Ross Waite Parsons Scholar)

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Brotman, S. (2001). The Dilemma of Prolonged Engagement. In: Weisstub, D.N., Thomasma, D.C., Gauthier, S., Tomossy, G.F. (eds) Aging: Caring for Our Elders. International Library of Ethics, Law, and the New Medicine, vol 11. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-0675-9_9

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