Based on the excellent job that you did for hospice care, you have been appointed to a board of directors to regulate the aging service industry. Some of these service providers include nursing homes, home healthcare services, retirement communities, rehabilitation and therapy facilities, memory care services, and assisted living facilities. Your contribution is needed to implement strategies and develop policies and procedures to address these dilemmas. As part of your contribution, you have been asked to prepare a 5-page strategy to address some of these issues.
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Discuss the strategies that you would recommend to support the following services and issues:
Non-abandonment of patients
Access of patients to high-quality palliative and end-of-life care
Conflicts of interest
Living wills
Rights of families
Nursing care
Home healthcare services
Retirement communities
Delivered services
Rehabilitation and therapy facilities
Memory care services
Assisted living facilities
Euthanasia
Pain management
Withdrawing treatment
Withholding treatment
Keep in mind the ethical principles of autonomy, beneficence, nonmaleficence, justice, and paternalism as well as how these ethical principles should be used in all these facilities.