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Monday, December 17, 2012
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Finding such a balance is essentially a matter of ?doing the right thing? for the good of all concerned.? In other words, it can be best thought of as an ethical decision.? Although the concept of ethics can be hard to pin down, Tomas Paul and Linda Elder of the Foundation for Critical Thinking offer this definition: ?A set of concepts and principles that guide us in determining what behavior helps or harms sentient creatures.?
Safety concerns are almost always more dominant in the thinking of family members than of their elderly loved ones, especially if a serious event has occurred.? When an elder falls and is discovered on the floor hours later, leaves the stove burner on overnight or gets lost driving to the grocery store, an adult daughter would be justifiably alarmed.? Placing safety as the top priority might seem to warrant having the elder move to an assisted living home, move in with family members who have the time to provide oversight or hire caregivers for round-the-clock assistance.
Elderly individuals almost never ascribe the same importance to warning signs about safety as do their concerned family members.? To the elder, continuing to live in familiar surroundings and make independent decisions will often be more important than achieving perfect protection against safety risks?even if this were possible.
How can ethical thinking guide families through these conflicting perspectives?? There can be no off-the-shelf prescription, but here are some suggestions:
- Think of safety and independence as end-points of a continuum, not as an ?either-or? choice.? The best solution for any given individual will be a compromise between the two.
- Recognize that psychological safety is as important as physical safety.? For example, accepting some risk of physical safety by remaining at home may actually enhance psychological safety.? All of us know of elderly individuals who were moved to a nursing home ?for their own good?, only to decline inexorably.
- As an ethical matter, remember that even disabled elders have an obligation to respect reasonable limits on the caregiving responsibilities of family members.? For many impaired seniors, exhausted children become enablers for postponing obviously needed outside help by acceding to every parental expectation.
- Consider all long-term care options in your planning, not just where the elder should live.? Home care, adult day care, meals on wheels, support groups, home accessibility modifications, volunteer services and geriatric care management consultation are just some of the community resources that are available.
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Source: http://www.readyhands.com/blog/safety-vs-independence-an-ethical-challenge/
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South Africa is not 'falling apart,' President Zuma says
The president of South Africa sought to dispel concerns about the country's sluggish growth, saying two downgrades by international rating agencies did not mean the country wasn't continuing to develop.
Flanked by security officials, President Jacob Zuma waves upon arrival at the start of the 53rd National Conference of his ruling African National Congress (ANC) in Bloemfontein December 16. South Africa is not "falling apart" and the ANC can run the continent's biggest economy, Zuma said on Sunday.
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South Africa?is not "falling apart" and the ruling African National Congress (ANC) can run the continent's biggest economy, President Jacob Zuma said on Sunday, as he sought to dispel the concerns of rating agencies and investors about sluggish growth.
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In his opening address to an ANC conference to choose its leadership for the next five years, Zuma said two downgrades by international ratings agencies this year did not mean South?Africa?was in trouble.
"We want to dismiss the perceptions that our country is falling apart because of the downgrades," he said. "We continue to do our development work, we continue to plan for a recovery."
At the conference this week held in the central city of?Bloemfontein, Zuma, 70, is expected to garner enough support to head off a challenge to his party chief post from Deputy President?Kgalema Motlanthe.
Retaining the ANC leadership puts Zuma in pole position to secure a second five-year term as?South Africa's president in the next national election in 2014.
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Sunday, December 16, 2012
Sandy Hook shooter a mystery to neighbors and former classmates
[Updated at 8:10 p.m. ET]
NEWTOWN, CONN. -- Even to his neighbors, the gunman who massacred 26 kids and educators at an elementary school here still remains somewhat of a mystery.
"I want to know more," said Len Strocchia, who lives less than half mile away from the shooter's house.
Authorities say Adam Lanza, 20, killed his mother, Nancy Lanza, at their well-to-do home?Friday morning?before driving to Sandy Hook Elementary where he stormed in and committed one of the worst mass school shootings in U.S. history. The victims were 20 first-graders and six staffers, including the principal.
Adam Lanza's parents divorced a few years ago. Late Saturday, his father, Peter Lanza, wrote his family is, "in a state of disbelief and trying to find whatever answers we can."
"Our family is grieving along with all those who have been affected by this enormous tragedy," he explained in a written statement. "No words can truly express how heartbroken we are."
On Saturday, Strocchia walked down the street to see the shooter's house firsthand, but was forbidden to go past a police barricade near the Lanza home.
"I want to know which house and why I didn't know them," the father of two teenagers told Yahoo News.
[RELATED: Names and ages of shooting victims]
Another neighbor did know Adam Lanza. Megan, who declined to give her last name, was a classmate of the shooter from kindergarten through middle school.
"He wasn't like a weird kid as a child," Megan told Yahoo News. "He was just quiet. He didn't put off a friendly vibe."
But she said he was one of the smartest students in school.
"He was always participating in class and everything," Megan said.
But she said her former classmate with whom she rode the school bus sort of vanished after their junior high years.
"He almost fell off the radar in middle school," Megan told Yahoo News.
The shooter's aunt, Marsha Lanza, told ABC News that his mother pulled him out of Newtown public schools because of a dispute over the district's plan for her son.
"She mentioned she wound up home-schooling him because she battled with the school district," the aunt told ABC News.
Police said Adam Lanza, dressed in all black, was armed with two handguns and a semi-automatic Bushmaster .223 rifle when he barged into the school.
[RELATED: Obama to visit Connecticut families]
Dr. Carver, the medical examiner, said it appears that all the children where gunned down by the military-style rifle. Authorities said all the weapons were legally owned and registered by Nancy Lanza, the shooter's mother.
Newtown school superintendent Janet Robinson told reporters Saturday that Nancy Lanza had no connection to Sandy Hook school, despite initial reports Lanza was on the faculty or a substitute teacher there.
"I'm sickened that this mass murder was done with legal guns," said Strocchia, the neighbor. "I'd like to find out why. Why did she have guns?"
But acquaintances of Nancy Lanza told The New York Times that the 52-year-old mother was a big fan of guns.
"She had several different guns," Dan Holmes told the newspaper. "I don't know how many. She would go target shooting with her kids."
Reports that Adam Lanza may have suffered from a personality disorder are being supported by people who knew the mother to have a troubled son.
According to the Times story, a friend said Nancy Lanza?was "handling a very difficult situation with uncommon grace."
Investigators revealed on Saturday that evidence found in the Lanza might provide a possible motive for the massacre.
State police spokesman Lt. Paul Vance declined to provide specifics about the evidence but said, "we're hopeful it will paint a complete picture."
Neighbors like Strocchia are searching for answers too. However, he said, said he harbors no anger.
"I'm thankful my children are alive," he said. "I have compassion and mercy. There was something wrong with him."
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/shooter-mystery-neighbors-former-classmates-215811657.html
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