2103       Title: Ensuring A Dignified Future: Ethical Challenges CMs Face in Caring for Individuals in Need of Long-Term Care Date: Thursday, June 19, 2008 Time: 03:45 PM - 05:15 PM Type: CONCURRENT Level: INTERMEDIATE Track: Ethics & Legal Sponsor(s): HPSO Speaker(s): Diann B. Uustal Ethical questions and related issues arise each day for case managers, clinicians, and other professionals who coordinate and provide a continuum of care for elders and other individuals in need of long-term care! You are invited to an engaging and practical session where you will have the opportunity to examine the issues that arise in caring for this special group and that concern you and your colleagues.  If you have ever thought ethics is dull or boring, or there are no "right answers," you are in for a revealing and challenging presentation! By using real life examples from case managers' experiences and dialoging with a practicing nurse ethicist, you will enhance your ability to resolve the numerous ethical issues that arise in managing the care for this special group of individuals! Objectives: Identify at least two ethical dilemmas that can emerge in caring for individuals requiring long-term care.   Identify when quality of life can be utilized as an ethical rational for determining whether treatment may be withheld or withdrawn.   Identify at least two ethical dilemmas that can emerge in caring for individuals requiring long-term care regarding their prevailing healthcare desires.   Identify at least two ethical dilemmas that can emerge in caring for individuals requiring long-term care, and describe controversies surround guidelines for treatment and quality of life.