Hong Kong's elderly citizens are currently facing numerous major problems which the government needs to address. The government has not placed a great deal of concern and attention on the aging population. The number of elderly continues to increase rapidly in Hong Kong. It was predicted that the el...
(act to die with dignity) 5) In addition to Mal's assisted suicide of pain medication overdose-he leaves a note for his mother to cremate him and do what she wants with the ashes. In addition to making Fenno his health proxy, Mal leaves a note for his mother to make sure that he becomes disposed to his liking-being cremated. ...
Gunning-Schepers and Stronks (1999) note "differences in health between social groups, defined by class, educational level, income or professional status have been recorded in every country that has carried out research and have not visibly diminished despite social policies such as universal access to health care, greater access to educational opportunities, occupational health efforts, or reductions in income inequality." ... Vladek reported government cost-containment policies have had a differentially greater impact on the poor. (1981) However, in a recent report, Ross and Mirowsky (2000) ...
The principle of respect for autonomy does not apply to people not in a position to act in an autonomous manner. This means that infants, suicidal people, and drug-dependent patients may be validly controlled on the grounds of beneficence to protect them from harm.1 Under the principle of beneficence, the nurse may legitimately restrain a patient from exercising his or her autonomy by trying to jump out a window.3 But people judged mentally incompetent are still capable of making autonomous choices about what they want to eat or what clothes they wish to wear.1 Constraint of a person'...
