Seniors And Squalor: Competency, Autonomy, And The Mistake Of Forced Intervention

This book will help readers to better understand and address a strange social phenomenon: the apparent choice by some seniors to live in squalor. * Incorporates the latest research concerning laws and medical classifications * Offers the first in-depth treatment of legal and political theory questions underlying the issue of self-neglect by senior citizens * Includes policy approaches crafted to address the issue at a societal level * Raises ethical questions based in the role of government in solving social problems

• | Author: Lisa Johnson
• | Publisher: Praeger
• | Publication Date: Oct 25, 2018
• | Number of Pages: 216 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover/Medical
• | ISBN-10: 1440853991
• | ISBN-13: 9781440853999