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Index
Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Contents
Chapter 1: This Strange Phenomenon
The As Yet Unpinned Subject
To What Extent Are We Willing to Allow Parentalist Stances by Our Government into Our Lives?
Should Reason, and Our Fealty to It, Blind Us to the Human Position of “Unreason”?
Should “Undesirables” Be “Dealt with” through Law?
Mentally Competent Seniors Who Are Perceived to Self-Neglect: A Composite
Scope
Why Should We Focus on Mentally Competent Seniors Who Are Perceived to Self-Neglect?
The Approach: Descriptive with an Excusing Condition
Chapter 2: Fuzzy Borders
Incompetency as Political Problem
Fissures in Rules and Reason
Competence, Capacity, Self-Neglect, Elder Abuse, and Seniors
Mental Competence
Capacity
Self-Neglect and Elder Abuse
Seniors
Confusion on the Front Lines
Chapter 3: Values of the Body Politic
The Right to Be Let Alone
Autonomy as a Check against Unwanted Reach of the State
OK, Political Values Are Important, but There Is Still a Problem with My Parent (or Neighbor, or …)
Chapter 4: What Can Be Done?
Perpetrators and Victims
Sometimes It’s Not Who They Are or What They Are, but Where They Are
Do They Live Alone?
Interior or Exterior?
Housing Density
Legal Interests in Residence
From Whence Do the Possibilities Arise?
State Governments
Federal Government
Legal Theories That Might Apply, Given the Right Set of Facts
Actions against the Mentally Competent Senior Who Is Perceived to Self-Neglect
Actions against Someone Else
Choices Are Thin
Chapter 5: What Should Be Done?
Undesirables, and Law as “the Great Mucilage”
General Policy Principles
Policy Considerations
What Does Not Work
What Might Work
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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