Hastings Center Report
Models of Relational Medical Decision-Making: Caregivers and Advanced Life-Sustaining Treatment
Outside the hospital, caregivers are essential to the use of advanced technologies to sustain life. Yet the value of caregivers and the benefits and burdens of care labor can easily be neglected when decision-making focuses on patients. Of four approaches that involve caregivers too in decision-making, one grounded in care ethics, which recognizes and values both the caregiving relationship and the individuals involved, can best redress this problem.
