{"id":9791,"date":"2010-05-01T21:41:21","date_gmt":"2010-05-02T02:41:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/law.marquette.edu\/facultyblog\/?p=9791"},"modified":"2010-05-01T21:43:49","modified_gmt":"2010-05-02T02:43:49","slug":"age-discrimination-in-health-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/law.marquette.edu\/facultyblog\/2010\/05\/age-discrimination-in-health-care\/","title":{"rendered":"Age Discrimination in Health Care"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Among other things, the recent\u00a0“death panel”\u00a0controversy highlights our collective unease with the thought\u00a0of elderly people being denied needed medical care based on someone else’s decision that their lives are not worth saving.\u00a0 Yet,\u00a0even without death panels, much research demonstrates that the elderly already suffer a great deal of discrimination in the health-care system, from the use of demeaning or patronizing language by\u00a0medical personnel\u00a0to disqualification from experimental treatments to dismissive responses\u00a0regarding health complaints.\u00a0 However, legal remedies for age discimination in health care\u00a0have proven\u00a0elusive.<\/p>\n

Phoebe Weaver Williams<\/a>\u00a0explores ageism in\u00a0health care, as well as potential remedies under the Age Act of 1975, in a pathbreaking new article<\/a> recently published in the Marquette Elder’s Advisor<\/em>.\u00a0 She argues that legal theories developed in connection with employment discrimination litigation, such as the hostile environment theory, might be adapted for use in\u00a0the\u00a0health-care context.<\/p>\n

Entitled “Age Discrimination in the Delivery of Health Care Services to Our Elders,” Phoebe’s article was published at 11 Marq. Elder’s Advisor 1.\u00a0 The abstract appears after the jump.\u00a0 <\/p>\n

The problem of health care providers making age biased decisions when treating elderly patients has received considerable attention and condemnation from both medical and social science researchers. When health care providers offer inappropriate or less care to patients because of their advanced chronological age, they potentially violate the Age Act of 1975. However, a review of the cases litigated under the Age Act suggests that advocates, regulators, and elders have not used the Age Act to address even the most blatant ageist practices in health care. Using methods developed to identify unlawful discrimination under employment and civil rights laws, this article characterizes certain ageist practices in the delivery of healthcare as potential violations of the Age Act of 1975. It concludes that regulators should undertake certain reforms so that elderly patients and their advocates can make better use of the Age Act\u2019s protections.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Among other things, the recent\u00a0“death panel”\u00a0controversy highlights our collective unease with the thought\u00a0of elderly people being denied needed medical care based on someone else’s decision that their lives are not worth saving.\u00a0 Yet,\u00a0even without death panels, much research demonstrates that the elderly already suffer a great deal of discrimination in the health-care system, from the 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