TY - JOUR
T1 - Ethical issues in geriatric psychiatry
AU - Rabins, Peter V.
AU - Black, Betty S.
N1 - Funding Information:
Declaration of interest: Peter Rabins is supported in part by the National Institute on Aging, grants AG021130, AG021334, and AG031348, and the Jewish Community Federation of Baltimore. He has provided legal testimony for Janssen Pharmaceuticals. Betty Black is supported in part by the National Institute on Aging, grant AG30036, the Stempler Fund for Dementia Research, and the Jewish Community Federation of Baltimore.
PY - 2010/6
Y1 - 2010/6
N2 - The high rates of medical illness in older people, the high prevalence of cognitive disorder in the elderly, and the high prevalence of frailty in late life raise issues that occur infrequently in the care of younger adults. This article discusses the ethical issues that commonly arise in the setting of these medical and psychiatric morbidities, and emphasizes the need for clinicians and researchers to be knowledgeable about the belief systems and values of individual patients, of their carers when relevant, of themselves, and of research participants.
AB - The high rates of medical illness in older people, the high prevalence of cognitive disorder in the elderly, and the high prevalence of frailty in late life raise issues that occur infrequently in the care of younger adults. This article discusses the ethical issues that commonly arise in the setting of these medical and psychiatric morbidities, and emphasizes the need for clinicians and researchers to be knowledgeable about the belief systems and values of individual patients, of their carers when relevant, of themselves, and of research participants.
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U2 - 10.3109/09540261.2010.484016
DO - 10.3109/09540261.2010.484016
M3 - Review article
C2 - 20528656
AN - SCOPUS:77953337836
SN - 0954-0261
VL - 22
SP - 267
EP - 273
JO - International Review of Psychiatry
JF - International Review of Psychiatry
IS - 3
ER -