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Article: Long-Term Care: Principles, Programs and Policies.
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- The Hastings Center Report
- Article date:
- September 1, 1989
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Long-Term Care: Principles, Programs and Policies. By Rosalie A. Kane and Robert L Kane. New York. Springer Publishing Co., 1987. x + 422 pp.
31.95 text ed. While "four alarm" issues, such as termination of medical interventions, once dominated discussion of bioethics and aging, there is now increasing recognition of "one alarm" issues, of which longterm care policy and decisionmaking are perhaps the most significant. For anyone with a scholar's or practitioners interest in ethical issues in long-term care, these two books are essential reading for their comprehensive and in-depth analyses of the complex phenomena of long-term care. At the same time, both books ...