Long-term care insurance can help you pay for the home care you need as you age if you anticipate your needs and choose your policy accordingly. It is important to know that the cost of long-term care is expected to grow significantly over the next few decades.
Second, we outline some of the major implications of Dewey's prag-. matic philosophy for the emerging subdiscipline of clinical ethics. Clinical ethics is concerned with analyzing and resolving moral problems. that arise in the care of patients in clinical settings. In addition, clinical. ethics is, or ought to be, concerned with mapping the reform of clinical. practice in the light of appropriate moral ideals. This essay concentrates. on two themes that have particular significance for developing a prag-. matic perspective on clinical ethics.
Ethics (from the Ancient Greek word ethikos meaning 'theory of living'), is a type of philosophy which attempts to figure out that right versus wrong in any given situation or scenario. In general terms, ethics are practical moral standards that distinguish right from wrong, and give us a guide to living 'moral' lives. These standards might include duties that we should follow, such as fidelity in marriage, or the consequences of our behaviour on others.