What Should We Ask About Age-Based Criteria in Healthcare?
Age-based criteria can be not only legal but also ethically acceptable and even desirable.
Geriatrics
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Philip C. Marshal is an elder justice advocate and founder of Beyond Brooke. The remarks below were prepared for Our Aging Brains: Decision-making, Fraud, and Undue Influence, part of the Project on Law and Applied Neuroscience at Harvard Law School; April 27, 2018. The complete version of Decision-making, fraud, and undue influence—illustrated through the lens…
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Read more: The Development and Certification of Decision Aids: Promoting Shared Decision-Making for Patients with Serious Illness The Development and Certification of Decision Aids: Promoting Shared Decision-Making for Patients with Serious Illness
The Development and Certification of Decision Aids: Promoting Shared Decision-Making for Patients with Serious Illness April 18, 2018 8:30 AM – 4:30 PM Wasserstein Hall, Milstein East AB (2036) Harvard Law School, 1585 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, MA Decision aids can be highly-effective tools to promote shared decision making and support patients in becoming engaged participants…
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Read more: The Development and Certification of Decision Aids: Promoting Shared Decision-Making for Patients with Serious Illness The Development and Certification of Decision Aids: Promoting Shared Decision-Making for Patients with Serious Illness
The Development and Certification of Decision Aids: Promoting Shared Decision-Making for Patients with Serious Illness April 18, 2018 8:30 AM – 4:30 PM Wasserstein Hall, Milstein East AB (2036) Harvard Law School, 1585 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, MA Decision aids can be highly-effective tools to promote shared decision making and support patients in becoming engaged participants…
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Read more: The Development and Certification of Decision Aids: Promoting Shared Decision-Making for Patients with Serious Illness The Development and Certification of Decision Aids: Promoting Shared Decision-Making for Patients with Serious Illness
The Development and Certification of Decision Aids: Promoting Shared Decision-Making for Patients with Serious Illness April 18, 2018 8:30 AM – 4:30 PM Wasserstein Hall, Milstein East AB (2036) Harvard Law School, 1585 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, MA Decision aids can be highly-effective tools to promote shared decision making and support patients in becoming engaged participants…
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Read more: The Development and Certification of Decision Aids: Promoting Shared Decision-Making for Patients with Serious Illness The Development and Certification of Decision Aids: Promoting Shared Decision-Making for Patients with Serious Illness
The Development and Certification of Decision Aids: Promoting Shared Decision-Making for Patients with Serious Illness April 18, 2018 8:30 AM – 4:30 PM Wasserstein Hall, Milstein East AB (2036) Harvard Law School, 1585 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, MA Decision aids can be highly-effective tools to promote shared decision making and support patients in becoming engaged participants…
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Read more: The Development and Certification of Decision Aids: Promoting Shared Decision-Making for Patients with Serious Illness The Development and Certification of Decision Aids: Promoting Shared Decision-Making for Patients with Serious Illness
The Development and Certification of Decision Aids: Promoting Shared Decision-Making for Patients with Serious Illness April 18, 2018 8:30 AM – 4:30 PM Wasserstein Hall, Milstein East AB (2036) Harvard Law School, 1585 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, MA Decision aids can be highly-effective tools to promote shared decision making and support patients in becoming engaged participants…
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By Norman L. Cantor A stricken medical patient has a well-established right to reject life-extending medical interventions. A person afflicted with pulmonary disease is entitled to reject a respirator, a person with kidney dysfunction can reject dialysis, and a person with a swallowing disorder can reject artificial nutrition and hydration (ANH). State and federal courts…
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By Wendy S. Salkin Just a few weeks ago, The New York Times ran an article confirming that, indeed, we are facing an epidemic of loneliness. There is “mounting evidence” that links loneliness to illness, as well as “functional and cognitive decline.” What’s more, loneliness turns out to be a better predictor of early death…
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Read more: CMS Prohibits Arbitration Clauses in Long-Term Care Facility Contracts CMS Prohibits Arbitration Clauses in Long-Term Care Facility Contracts
By Wendy S. Salkin On Wednesday, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS)—an agency within the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)—released a final rule that “will revise the requirements that Long-Term Care facilities [LTCs] must meet to participate in the Medicare and Medicaid programs” (1). (Almost all LTCs receive funds from Medicare or Medicaid.) This is…