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Week 11_Long term care

Week 11_Long term care

Q This week we are addressing ethical and legal issues in the long term care environment. Please come to the board and discuss these issues. Some issues involve neglect and abuse of the elderly, use of the least restrictive environment, etc. Please review the chapter for this week and come to our discussion board and update us on what you have learned.

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First of all, it is required mentioning here that recently the percentage of ethical as well as legal issues in the field of long term care environment has increased in a disappointing rate. Abuse to the vulnerable adults have increased even in the hands of the medical professionals and one of the reasons is that most of the vulnerable adults are the ignorant parts of their families and most of their near ones hardly visit them, hence neglecting approaches from the end of the medical professionals have increased.