Ethically Managing Sexual Activity in Longterm Ca

Authors: Bethan Everett

Publish Date: 2007/01/20

Volume: 25, Issue: 1, Pages: 21-27

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Abstract

Although care providers in almost every longterm care facility face daily challenges involving issues related to residents’ sexual lives guidelines for the ethical legal and socially responsible management of sexual activity are rare and ubiquitously inadequate In this essay I argue that ethically and legally care providers should only interfere in residents’ sexual activity in restricted ways and for limited reasons I utilize Joel Feinberg’s philosophical works which address the limits of power that can be legitimately exercised by society over the individual to derive an ethical framework for determining how and when care providers should intervene in residents’ sexual activity

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