The cost of autonomy, the price of paternalism

Article Abstract:

Contemporary medical ethics should understand and recognize that dignity can thrive even under tragic circumstances with the ongoing debate on autonomy and paternalism in the medical care of the aged. Tacit intervention should be carried out to avoid attracting attention to degrading conditions which may result to the loss of dignity and respect if directly witnessed by other people. Without explicit and voluntary delegation, intervention becomes the last recourse and is justifiable only if the patient has lost the mental capacity to decide for himself.

Health aspects, Care and treatment, Aged patients, Elderly patients, Medical ethics

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Why dignity in old age matters

Article Abstract:

A moral archaeological approach is used to prove that dignity in old age is important. The approach includes elderly persons' self-regarding behavior and other persons' regarding behavior toward elderly persons. The taxonomy of dignity includes self-respect, power, decorum, privacy and honor versus shame, vulnerability, inappropriate behavior, exposure and humiliation, respectively. It also includes equality, adulthood, individuation, autonomy and ego integration versus favoritism, infantilization, objectification, dependency and despair, respectively.

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Philanthropy and government: partners in the community of caring

Article Abstract:

Philanthropic and voluntary groups enable the government to devolve the authority of providing funds and services to the people and give the elderly opportunities to maintain their dignity by assuming care giver roles. In addition, they also preserve dignity by defending humanitarian values and respecting individual differences as the mediating structures between various religious, ethnic and age groups, and the government.

Philanthropy

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