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Older Persons’ Ethical Problems Involving Their Health

Miriam E Cameron

camer008{at}tc.umn.edu

Although older persons (aged 65 years and older) experience stressful ethical problems involving their health, research is lacking about this phenomenon. The purpose of this study was to describe and examine the content and basic nature of older persons’ ethical problems concerning their health. The conceptual framework and method combined ethical enquiry and phenomenology. The participants were 18 older persons and 12 of their children or grandchildren (for contextual understanding). The 19 women and 11 men, 73% of whom were Caucasian, described 184 ethical problems, from which emerged 10 content categories. The basic nature of the ethical problems consisted of conflict, resolution and rationale. The results could assist health professionals to promote older persons’ ethical decision making, quality of life, and good death.

Key Words: conflict • ethical decision making • ethics • nursing • older persons

Nursing Ethics, Vol. 9, No. 5, 537-556 (2002)
DOI: 10.1191/0969733002ne543oa
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