Contents Chapter 1 This Strange Phenomenon 1 The As Yet Unpinned Subject 1 To What Extent Are We Willing to Allow Parentalist Stances by Our Government into Our Lives? 4 Should Reason, and Our Fealty to It, Blind Us to the Human Position of “Unreason”? 7 Should “Undesirables” Be “Dealt with” through Law? 12 Mentally Competent Seniors Who Are Perceived to Self-Neglect: A Composite 14 Scope 19 Why Should We Focus on Mentally Competent Seniors Who Are Perceived to Self-Neglect? 23 The Approach: Descriptive with an Excusing Condition 28 Chapter 2 Fuzzy Borders 31 Incompetency as Political Problem 32 Fissures in Rules and Reason 33 Competence, Capacity, Self-Neglect, Elder Abuse, and Seniors 36 Mental Competence 36 Capacity 48 Self-Neglect and Elder Abuse 55 Seniors 59 Confusion on the Front Lines 60 Chapter 3 Values of the Body Politic 61 The Right to Be Let Alone 63
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