Ethics, Law, And Aging Review, Volume 8 - Marshall Kapp

Ethics, Law, And Aging Review, Volume 8
Issues in Conducting Research With and About Older Persons

Editor: Marshall Kapp, JD, MPH, FCLM

Pub Date: 07/2002
184 pp Hardback
ISBN13: 9780826116420

List: $80.00

Description | Table of Contents | Author Biographies

Perplexing ethical questions emerge when conducting research involving older adult participants. Fundamental ethical concerns often grappled with include the ability to obtain truly voluntary and competent informed consent, the proper role of surrogate decision making in the research context, and the equitable selection of research subjects.

This volume brings to the forefront a discussion of how to encourage essential research specifically designed to benefit older persons while protecting the legal and ethical rights of actual and potential older research participants.

Highly qualified and diverse contributors analyze and explain some of the most salient and legal conundrums implicated in the design, conduct, interpretation, and application of research protocols that touch on these problems of aging and the aged.

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Table of Contents

Part I: Conducting Research With and About Older Persons: Ethical and Legal Issues and Implications

Ethical Issues in Informed Consent in the Conduct of Research with Aging Persons, S. Loue
Decisional Capacity and Consent for Research in the Cognitively Impaired Older Adult, W.S. Davis and J.D. Moreno
The Search for a Coherent Language: The Science and Politics of Drug Testing and Approval, J. Karlawish
Ethical and Legal Considerations in Health Services Research, L. Curry
Regulating Research for the Decisionally Impaired: Implications for Mental Health Professionals, M.B. Kapp

Part II: Independent Articles

Ethical Complexities of Aggressive Surgical Interventions in the Very Old, E.G. DeRenzo and S. Rizk
From Elder Guardianship to Long-Term Legal Care, I. Doron
The Circle of Life: Respecting Patients Preferences Near the End of Life?, L. Sevick

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Author Biographies

Marshall B. Kapp, JD, MPH, FCLM, was educated at Johns Hopkins University (BA), George Washington University (JD with Honors), and Harvard University (MPH). Since August 1980, he has been a faculty member in the School of Medicine at Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio, where he is the Frederick A. White Distinguished Service Professor in the Departments of Community Health and Psychiatry and Director of the WSU Office of Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology. He holds an adjunct faculty appointment at the University of Dayton School of Law. In addition to being admitted to practice law in a number of state and federal courts, he is also licensed as a Nursing Home Administrator in the District of Columbia. He is the author of a substantial number of published books, articles, and reviews.

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