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Abstract
This presentation will navigate the framework of medical futility, and try to understand what it means to provide care to a growing elderly population in the face of limited resources and futile medical treatment. This will be done by illustrating how medical futility is utilized in healthcare settings, problems with the current framework, and the ethical implications of adopting medical futility as a way of determining how much care a patient receives because what constitutes “futile” is subjective.
Faculty Mentors & Instructors
Jennifer Parks, PhD, Bioethics; Elizabeth Bayley, PhD, English
Medical Futility Presentation
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Medical Futility: The Ethical Dilemma
This presentation will navigate the framework of medical futility, and try to understand what it means to provide care to a growing elderly population in the face of limited resources and futile medical treatment. This will be done by illustrating how medical futility is utilized in healthcare settings, problems with the current framework, and the ethical implications of adopting medical futility as a way of determining how much care a patient receives because what constitutes “futile” is subjective.