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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.

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Jennifer Parks, PhD, Bioethics; Elizabeth Bayley, PhD, English

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Medical-Futility_-The-Ethical-Dilemma.mov (15458 kB)
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.