Title
Butterworth
C (2005): "Ongoing consent to care for older people in care homes" Nursing
Standard, Volume 19, Number 20, p40-45
Abstract
- Obtaining
informed consent is a fundamental part of the care-giving process.
Current policy documents emphasise the importance of including patients
in the planning of their care. This article explores the concept
of consent and the challenges to this concept for older people in
long term care, where consent is not a one-off event requiring a
'consent form', but just one stage in the continuum of involvement
for service users. At one end of the spectrum, service users may
be unaware that they have a service user plan (care plan), while
at the other end they may be enabled to complete an advance statement
of their wishes, thus demonstrating significant involvement in planning
their care.
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