This revised edition of the text was necessary because the world of geriatrics and the law continues to change in many and substantial ways. New judicial decisions, legislative statutes, administrative rules and regulations, agency reports, and governmental and private guidelines exert a powerful and growing influence on the legal relationships presently played out among older patients, their families, health care professionals and institutions, private third-party payers, and the larger society. A flood of recent contributions to the legal, medical, and gerontological lit- erature interpreting unfolding legal developments help to give texture and context to the legal environment prevailing in the late 1990s, an environment that is constantly and materially evolving. The current revolution in health care financing and delivery helps to shape a context in which legal obligations sometimes are enhanced but sometimes  are placed in tension with ethical and other professional values.

The implications of the relevant statutes, regulations, judicial opinions, and private guidelines that have unfolded since the second edition, as well as the professional literature illuminating the new laws, have been woven into each chapter of the third edition. Every part of the book has been thoroughly updated and, where appropriate, expanded.

The admonition made in the prefaces to the first and second editions is truer today than ever: few health care professionals can afford to ignore the aging phenomenon. As significant changes in the law affect the patient rights and professional responsibilities entailed in serving this distinct and challenging patient population, this third edition of Geriatrics and the Law attempts to assist practitioners in a variety of disciplines in recognizing and responding appropriately to those changes.

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