Contents; Contributors; Preface; Part I. Deinstitutionalizing Long-Term Care: Making Legal Strides, Avoiding Policy Errors; Chapter 1 Community-Based Alternatives for Older Adults With Serious Mental Illness: The Olmstead Decision and Deinstitutionalization of Nursing Homes; Chapter 2 Rebalancing State Long-Term Care Systems; Chapter 3 The Realpolitik of Deinstitutionalizing Long-Term Care: Olmstead Meets Reality; Chapter 4 Guilty of Mental Illness: What the ADA Says About the Use of Prisons as Long-Term-Care Facilities for People With Psychiatric Disabilities
Chapter 5 When Consumer-Directed Alternatives to Nursing Homes Fail: Assigning Legal and Ethical Responsibility in Worst-Case SituationsChapter 6 The Ethics of Medicare Privatization; Part II. Independent Article; Chapter 7 Cross-Cultural Aspects of Geriatric Decision-Making Capacity; Book Reviews; Books Received; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W
Summary
We are now engaged in a movement that de-emphasizes the reliance on institutional forms of long-term care for disabled persons needing ongoing daily living assistance and converges on the use of non-institutional service providers abnd residential settings. In this latest edition of Ethics, Law and Aging Review, Kapp and ten expert contributors help us examine the forces and potential for changeing the long-term care industry (both positively and negatively) and address this paradigm shift from the inpersonal, public psychiatric institutions of the 1960s and 1970s to the present-day assisted
