ETHICS AND ELDER MISTREATMENT - UNITING PROTOCOL WITH PRACTICE

This chapter focuses on the meaning of ethics in elder mistreatment, M ore specifically, ethical issues are distinguished from non-ethical is sues and ethical dilemmas. The primary objective is to demystify ethic s for elder-serving practitioners and to show how ethics can be a part of the treatment decision-making process, This process details ''doin g'' ethics in the practice setting, It proposes a method for developin g ethical practice at the multidisciplinary level, The multidisciplina ry level starts with the client and professional and ends with the com munity-based multidisciplinary team, The latter include human services professionals who have the important task of transforming ethical pro tocols into practice.