Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1986
ISSN
0887-378X
Publisher
Milbank Memorial Fund
Language
en-US
Abstract
Some legislation, such as law permitting living wills, has addressed the problem of decisions regarding life-sustaining treatment for the elderly. Most of the developing law on the subject is, however, being made by the courts, often in prospective decisions about treatment. These rulings have followed a variety of approaches to the ends of protecting incompetent patients and enforcing the right of the competent to make their own decisions.
Recommended Citation
George J. Annas & Leonard H. Glantz,
The Right of Elderly Patients to Refuse Life-Sustaining Treatment
,
64
The Milbank Quarterly
95
(1986).
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https://scholarship.law.bu.edu/faculty_scholarship/1311
