Focus on Liability of Residences for Elderly and Sick People: A Case Series and Medico-Legal Issues
Residences for elderly and sick people, self-sufficient or dependent, are varied. To date, the liability profiles of these structures are not clearly delineated, and increasingly often, their operating and organization criteria are entrusted to subnational, regional, or local regulations. Among the...
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| author | Tommaso D’Anna Antonina Argo Giuseppe Davide Albano Maria Puntarello Chiara Rizzo Daniela Guadagnino Stefania Zerbo |
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| description | Residences for elderly and sick people, self-sufficient or dependent, are varied. To date, the liability profiles of these structures are not clearly delineated, and increasingly often, their operating and organization criteria are entrusted to subnational, regional, or local regulations. Among the various deficits, there is the keeping of a complete and detailed documentation/diary of the patient, the lack of which can generate medico-legal problems. In this paper, we present three cases of guests in residences for a dependent person brought to the attention of the Institute of Forensic Medicine of the University Hospital of Palermo due to criminal proceedings, where the lack of existing documentation in the structure and, in some cases, the behavior of the professionals working there, led the evaluator to deduce the organization’s culpability. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-66fd8df0182e4dd9ba84e268c34ae9d62023-11-16T20:46:39ZengMDPI AGHealthcare2227-90322023-02-0111453910.3390/healthcare11040539Focus on Liability of Residences for Elderly and Sick People: A Case Series and Medico-Legal IssuesTommaso D’Anna0Antonina Argo1Giuseppe Davide Albano2Maria Puntarello3Chiara Rizzo4Daniela Guadagnino5Stefania Zerbo6Policlinic Hospital, University of Palermo, Via del Vespro 129, 90127 Palermo, ItalyDepartment of Health Promotion, Mother and Child Care, Internal Medicine and Medical Specialties, Section of Legal Medicine, University of Palermo, 90127 Palermo, ItalyDepartment of Health Promotion, Mother and Child Care, Internal Medicine and Medical Specialties, Section of Legal Medicine, University of Palermo, 90127 Palermo, ItalyDepartment of Health Promotion, Mother and Child Care, Internal Medicine and Medical Specialties, Section of Legal Medicine, University of Palermo, 90127 Palermo, ItalyDepartment of Health Promotion, Mother and Child Care, Internal Medicine and Medical Specialties, Section of Legal Medicine, University of Palermo, 90127 Palermo, ItalyDepartment of Health Promotion, Mother and Child Care, Internal Medicine and Medical Specialties, Section of Legal Medicine, University of Palermo, 90127 Palermo, ItalyDepartment of Health Promotion, Mother and Child Care, Internal Medicine and Medical Specialties, Section of Legal Medicine, University of Palermo, 90127 Palermo, ItalyResidences for elderly and sick people, self-sufficient or dependent, are varied. To date, the liability profiles of these structures are not clearly delineated, and increasingly often, their operating and organization criteria are entrusted to subnational, regional, or local regulations. Among the various deficits, there is the keeping of a complete and detailed documentation/diary of the patient, the lack of which can generate medico-legal problems. In this paper, we present three cases of guests in residences for a dependent person brought to the attention of the Institute of Forensic Medicine of the University Hospital of Palermo due to criminal proceedings, where the lack of existing documentation in the structure and, in some cases, the behavior of the professionals working there, led the evaluator to deduce the organization’s culpability.https://www.mdpi.com/2227-9032/11/4/539elderly people residencehealthcare liabilitymissed caredisabilitysocial–health managementmedico-legal issues |
| spellingShingle | Tommaso D’Anna Antonina Argo Giuseppe Davide Albano Maria Puntarello Chiara Rizzo Daniela Guadagnino Stefania Zerbo Focus on Liability of Residences for Elderly and Sick People: A Case Series and Medico-Legal Issues Healthcare elderly people residence healthcare liability missed care disability social–health management medico-legal issues |
| title | Focus on Liability of Residences for Elderly and Sick People: A Case Series and Medico-Legal Issues |
| title_full | Focus on Liability of Residences for Elderly and Sick People: A Case Series and Medico-Legal Issues |
| title_fullStr | Focus on Liability of Residences for Elderly and Sick People: A Case Series and Medico-Legal Issues |
| title_full_unstemmed | Focus on Liability of Residences for Elderly and Sick People: A Case Series and Medico-Legal Issues |
| title_short | Focus on Liability of Residences for Elderly and Sick People: A Case Series and Medico-Legal Issues |
| title_sort | focus on liability of residences for elderly and sick people a case series and medico legal issues |
| topic | elderly people residence healthcare liability missed care disability social–health management medico-legal issues |
| url | https://www.mdpi.com/2227-9032/11/4/539 |
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