Aged Care and Intimacy: Consent, Autonomy, and Sexuality

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Sep 23, 202100:38:42Science & Medicine

How should we approach consent in the context of Aged Care? This is the question at the heart of an influential paper by Dr Vanessa Schouten, Dr Catherine Cook and Dr Mark Henrickson. Weighing up the role of autonomy, co...

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