Ethical Issues Related to the Aging Population



Table of Contents

Introduction1

Discussion1

Ethical Issues with Homebound Aged People1

Therapeutic Misconception and Research Role Conflict2

Ethical Tension of Aged Social Workers3

Ethical Issues related to Retirement Plans4

Consideration of Ethical Issues with End of Life6

Ethical Issues in Community Systems8

Administrative Perspective in Ethical Issues9

Conclusion10

References11

Ethical Issues Related to the Aging Population

Introduction

Ethical issues are an important impending obstacle in the long term caring of the aging population. Population aging is a complicated problem that requires not only the healthiness of the present aged people but also the extensive fields and areas that affect the total population like public finances, health and labor markets.

Population ageing engages and affects the societies as well as all the sectors of society and the government. A series of complicated problems appears from the assessment of the end of life in the old age. The main focus is on the ethical issues along with the cultural concerns that arises in the aging population however the culture is understood as a scheme of shared practices and values.

The aging of the ethnic minority population, migrated due to various reasons, and the worldwide expansion of the health care and medical practices makes the ethical issues critically a significant field of practice. This makes the ethical issues very crucial and an urgent need to develop the evidence based is necessary. An imperative need for the research is required to best serve the aging population of the world with possible facilities like the nursing facilities and assisted living.

Discussion

Ethical Issues with Homebound Aged People

Conducting the research on the homebound aged people contains a number of diverse practical and ethical challenges that entails extraordinary consideration. Various ethical dilemmas are discussed in the researches of helpless and weak old people. However, this article focuses on those dilemmas that are more unique and common in the homebound aged people.

In the tolerant and unfettered atmosphere of the home system, the aged people are potentially uncovered to wider series of threatening and insecure situations than in the institutional systems. In the home system the aged people are not monitored efficiently by the health care professionals and they became very secluded and isolated from the world. Researchers are facing the dilemmas of recognizing these unsecure and hazardous situations in the life of aged people, and feel to need a secure and safe action for them.

Therapeutic Misconception and Research Role Conflict

In the study of homebound aged people, two ethical dilemmas are prominent that are therapeutic misconception and research role conflict. Both these dilemmas involve the conflicting role of the researcher however from diverse point of views. The therapeutic misconception is a general dilemma in the health care trials and most of the researchers differ over the level to which this problem is regarded as dangerous for the participants.

The therapeutic misconception is common for the homebound aged people due to a number of causes which include that the aged people are employed, their status in the home and the setting of their home, which as especially relevant in these aged ...