Peer reviewedERIC Number: EJ378594
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 1988
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Improving the Discharge Planning Process: Distinquishing between Coercion and Choice.
Dubler, Nancy Neveloff
Gerontologist, v28 suppl p76-81 Jun 1988
Commissioned scholarly papers and undertook anthropologic observation to examine legal and ethical issues for patients, family, and caregivers during discharge planning. Proposed policy suggestions in which conflicting interests were recognized but in which patients' rights to autonomous decision making in discharge planning were strongly supported. (Author/NB)
Descriptors: Competence, Decision Making, Nursing Homes, Older Adults, Patients, Personal Autonomy, Placement, Social Services
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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