Ethical Decision Making in Situations of Self-neglect and Squalor among Older People
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12901981 |
|---|---|
| Authors | SHANNON MCDERMOTT (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2011 |
| Volume | 5 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 52-71 |
| Publication date | 2011-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Ethics and Social Welfare (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1749-6535 • E-ISSN: 1749-6543 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/17496535.2011.546179 |
| OpenAlex | W2008533796 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 12 |
| References cited | 50 |
Current approaches to professional ethics emphasise the importance of upholding the ethical duties of autonomy, beneficence, non-maleficence, and justice in practice. All are prima facie duties, meaning that they must be respected on their own and, if the duties conflict, it is assumed that the dilemma can be resolved through rational decision making. There are, however, a number of limitations to this approach to professional ethics. This paper explores these limitations through an empirical study that examined the ethical dilemmas facing 24 professionals in their work with older people who were self-neglecting or living in squalor in Sydney, Australia. The research uncovered that two groups of professionals interpreted autonomy in different ways. Furthermore, when faced with difficult ethical dilemmas, participants agreed that the most satisfactory responses involved strategies that closely mirrored elements of alternative approaches to ethics, particularly the ethics of care and virtue ethics. The findings point to the relevance of a pluralistic approach to ethics in professional practice
Applied ethics · Autonomy · Beneficence · Dilemma · Duty · Economic Justice · Engineering ethics · Epistemology · Ethical dilemma · Meaning (existential · Meta-ethics · Nursing ethics · Political science · Prima facie · Psychotherapist · Sociology · Virtue · Virtue ethics · Elder Abuse and Neglect · Ethics in medical practice · Law · Patient Dignity and Privacy · Psychology
Managing risk
Paternalism or proportionality? Experiences and outcomes of the Adult Support and Protection (Scotland) Act 2007
Implications of divergences in adult protection legislation
The ethics of practical reasoning—exploring the terrain
Deprivation and well-being in squalid living
Care Ethics for Supported Decision-making. A Narrative Policy Analysis Regarding Social Work in Cases of Dementia and Self-neglect
Choosing to Live with Harm? A Presentation of two Case Studies to Explore the Perspective of those who Experienced Adult Safeguarding Interventions
Autonomy and Protection in Self-neglect Work
Tinkering as Collective Practice
Ian's Story
Welfare Conditionality, Ethics and Social Care for Older People in the UK
Social Work, Inter-Disciplinary Cooperation and Self-Neglect
Social Work in a Risk Society
The Morality of Pluralism
Ethics, Accountability and the Social Professions
Ethics and Values in Social Work
New Approaches in Ethics for the Caring Professions
Ethics and Values in Social Work
Ensuring rigour in qualitative research
Ethics needs principles—four can encompass the rest—and respect for autonomy should be “first among equals”
The Cost of Autonomy, the Price of Paternalism
What can the Social Sciences Contribute to the Study of Ethics? Theoretical, Empirical and Substantive Considerations
Social work values and ethics
Ethical Dilemmas in Treating Cases of Abuse of Older People in the Family
Standards for Rigor in Qualitative Inquiry
Mortality and morality
Virtue Ethics and Social Work
Rethinking Professional Practice
The Evolution of Social Work Ethics
The Social Worker as Moral Citizen
Virtue Ethics
In a different voice
Dependence, independence or inter-dependence? Revisiting the concepts of 'care' and 'dependency
Can ethnography save the life of medical ethics
Continuity of the Self in Later Life
On reflection
Finding dignity in dirty work
| Unique citing works | 12 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2014 - 2025 (12) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 12 |