Health care directives for the elderly. Journal Articles

abstract

• The treatment of incompetent older people presents physicians and family members with complex medical, ethical, moral, and legal problems. This article explores the use of advance health care directives in the decision-making process, the qualities of the "ideal" directive, practical and legal issues relating to directives, and the role of the family physician in their implementation.

authors

• Urbanyi, Mafalda
• Molloy, Davidwilliam
• Lever, Judith A

status

• published 

publication date

• October 1992

has subject area

• 1117 Public Health and Health Services (FoR)
• Advance Directives (MeSH)
• Aged (MeSH)
• Canada (MeSH)
• Decision Making (MeSH)
• Euthanasia, Passive (MeSH)
• Family (MeSH)
• Family Practice (MeSH)
• General & Internal Medicine (Science Metrix)
• Humans (MeSH)
• Information Dissemination (MeSH)
• Information Services (MeSH)
• Jurisprudence (MeSH)
• Mental Competency (MeSH)
• Patient Care (MeSH)
• Patient Participation (MeSH)
• Physician's Role (MeSH)
• Physicians (MeSH)
• Reference Standards (MeSH)
• Third-Party Consent (MeSH)
• Treatment Refusal (MeSH)
• Withholding Treatment (MeSH)

published in

• Canadian Family Physician  Journal

keywords

• Advance Directives
• Aged
• Canada
• Death and Euthanasia
• Decision Making
• Euthanasia, Passive
• Family
• Family Practice
• Humans
• Information Dissemination
• Information Services
• Jurisprudence
• Mental Competency
• Patient Care
• Patient Participation
• Physician's Role
• Physicians
• Reference Standards
• Third-Party Consent
• Treatment Refusal
• Withholding Treatment

start page

• 2357

end page

• 2361

volume

• 38