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The Medical Journal of Australia has published a new paper examining the ethics of aged care, in particular how to create a “just” residential aged care sector.
Authored by members of the Queensland Bioethics Centre at Australian Catholic University, the paper envisions residential aged care settings as social and ecological communities rather than places for the dominant consumerist approaches to care.
“The reduction of RAC residents to consumers has led to a sector in which a person’s status and role as a member of social and ecological communities can be neglected. It has also contributed to a sector where even clinical care is substandard.”
Lachlan Green, and co-authors Bridget Pratt and David Kirchhoffer, who is the director of the Queensland Bioethics Centre, believe theories of social and environmental justice can help guide the development of the aged care sector and offer aged care providers and policy makers novel solutions to critical challenges identified by the Royal Commission.
“A Community within social and ecological communities: a new philosophical foundation for a just residential aged care sector” is published in the Medical Journal of Australia.
