Lisa Johnson

Seniors and Squalor (eBook, ePUB)

Competency, Autonomy, and the Mistake of Forced Intervention

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book will help readers to better understand and address a strange social phenomenon: the apparent choice by some seniors to live in squalor.

Seniors and Squalor examines the widespread and growing phenomenon of mentally competent senior citizens living in self-imposed squalor and refusing help, whether from health care professionals, government, or family. At this juncture of medicine and law, many families have experienced frustration, embarrassment, and heartbreak. The book also explores associated ethical questions, arguing that society can address the problem while respecting individual legal autonomy.

For the theorist, this work provides the first in-depth treatment of legal and political theory questions undergirding the issue of self-neglect by seniors. It also underscores the importance of limited government, the necessity of granting American citizens their individual rights, and the critical need to stop classifying self-neglect as abuse.

This is an ideal read for graduate and undergraduate students, scholars, practitioners of health care and geriatrics, social workers, and lawyers. Most importantly, this book will appeal to those directly affected by the problem-family, friends, and social work professionals-by giving them a broader understanding of this complex social issue and how to best respond to it.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Inc
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Altersempfehlung: ab 7 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Oktober 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798216143376
• Artikelnr.: 68167945

Autorenporträt

Lisa Johnson, PhD, JD, is professor at the University of Puget Sound School of Business and Leadership, where she teaches courses in law and legal studies.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1This Strange Phenomenon The As Yet Unpinned Subject To What Extent
Are We Willing to Allow Parentalist Stances by Our Government into Our
Lives? Should Reason, and Our Fealty to It, Blind Us to the Human Position
of "Unreason"? Should "Undesirables" Be "Dealt with" through Law? Mentally
Competent Seniors Who Are Perceived to Self-Neglect: A Composite Scope Why
Should We Focus on Mentally Competent Seniors Who Are Perceived to
Self-Neglect? The Approach: Descriptive with an Excusing Condition Chapter
2Fuzzy Borders Incompetency as Political Problem Fissures in Rules and
Reason Competence, Capacity, Self-Neglect, Elder Abuse, and Seniors Mental
Competence Capacity Self-Neglect and Elder Abuse Seniors Confusion on the
Front Lines Chapter 3Values of the Body Politic The Right to Be Let Alone
Autonomy as a Check against Unwanted Reach of the State OK, Political
Values Are Important, but There Is Still a Problem with My Parent (or
Neighbor, or . . .) Chapter 4What Can Be Done? Perpetrators and Victims
Sometimes It's Not Who They Are or What They Are, but Where They Are Do
They Live Alone? Interior or Exterior? Housing Density Legal Interests in
Residence From Whence Do the Possibilities Arise? State Governments
Federal Government Legal Theories That Might Apply, Given the Right Set of
Facts Actions against the Mentally Competent Senior Who Is Perceived to
Self-Neglect Actions against Someone Else Choices Are Thin Chapter 5What
Should Be Done? Undesirables, and Law as "the Great Mucilage" General
Policy Principles Policy Considerations What Does Not Work What Might Work
Notes Bibliography Index