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- Title
Ethical decision making in aged care.
- Authors
Foltyn, Peter
- Abstract
The article discusses the challenges of preparing an appropriate treatment plant for a geriaitc patient with pain or swelling. It mentions the lack of symptoms coupled with ethical decision-making, loical difficulties in accessing treatment and an overall inability to ensure a reseaonable benefit. It notes that dental treatment with frailty can be very time-consuming, and success frequently depends on special attention to the psychosocial influences on health and illness.
- Subjects
SYMPTOMS; GERIATRIC dentistry; IMMUNOSENESCENCE; DECISION making in dentistry; EVIDENCE-based dentistry
- Publication
Gerodontology, 2017, Vol 34, Issue 3, p289
- ISSN
0734-0664
- Publication type
journal article
- DOI
10.1111/ger.12272