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Ethics Education in Gerontology and Geriatrics

Ethics Education in Gerontology and Geriatrics CHAPTER 5 Ethics Education in Gerontology and Geriatrics Marshall B. Kapp Caring for older persons is a signifi cant part of current professional life for providers of health care, human, and business services in the United States. The older individual living in a complex modern society often confronts an array of life challenges that necessitate the invocation of professional assis- tance. Planning, delivering, and evaluating gerontological and geriatric care implicates a wide variety of ethical issues for various kinds of practitioners and for those who advocate for, develop, and implement the public policies within which products and services for the aged are provided. Consequently, one would expect educators of present and future service and public policy professionals in the aging sphere to integrate a substantial amount of teach- ing about ethical issues into the course content for those professionals, and indeed we have begun to witness at least some substantial movement in this direction over the past couple of decades in undergraduate, graduate, and continuing professional education programs aimed at these student audiences (Moody & Mangum, 2004). RATIONALE Aside from the obvious national and global demographic trend entailing a rapidly increasing number and percentage of older citizens (particularly in http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Annual Review of Gerontology & Geriatrics Springer Publishing

Ethics Education in Gerontology and Geriatrics

Kapp, Marshall B.
Annual Review of Gerontology & Geriatrics , Volume 28 (1): 12 – Nov 1, 2008
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Springer Publishing
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0198-8794
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CHAPTER 5 Ethics Education in Gerontology and Geriatrics Marshall B. Kapp Caring for older persons is a signifi cant part of current professional life for providers of health care, human, and business services in the United States. The older individual living in a complex modern society often confronts an array of life challenges that necessitate the invocation of professional assis- tance. Planning, delivering, and evaluating gerontological and geriatric care implicates a wide variety of ethical issues for various kinds of practitioners and for those who advocate for, develop, and implement the public policies within which products and services for the aged are provided. Consequently, one would expect educators of present and future service and public policy professionals in the aging sphere to integrate a substantial amount of teach- ing about ethical issues into the course content for those professionals, and indeed we have begun to witness at least some substantial movement in this direction over the past couple of decades in undergraduate, graduate, and continuing professional education programs aimed at these student audiences (Moody & Mangum, 2004). RATIONALE Aside from the obvious national and global demographic trend entailing a rapidly increasing number and percentage of older citizens (particularly in

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