ETHICS AND ELDER MISTREATMENT - UNITING PROTOCOL WITH PRACTICE

This chapter focuses on the meaning of ethics in elder mistreatment, More specifically, ethical issues are distinguished from non-ethical issues and ethical dilemmas. The primary objective is to demystify ethics for elder-serving practitioners and to show how ethics can be a part of the treatment decision-making process, This process details ''doing'' ethics in the practice setting, It proposes a method for developing ethical practice at the multidisciplinary level, The multidisciplinary level starts with the client and professional and ends with the community-based multidisciplinary team, The latter include human services professionals who have the important task of transforming ethical protocols into practice.