Comité de Bioética Asistencial en residencias y centros de día

Healthcare Bioethics Committee

We provide guidance and advice for the ethical management of our Amavir adult day care centers and homes

Amavir’s Healthcare Bioethics Committee

Created in 2019, the committee provides guidance and advice on ethical management to the company and its stakeholders.

WHAT IS IT?

In 2019, Amavir established its Care Bioethics Committee, a team of people from different professions that provides guidance and advice on ethical conflicts that may arise from care, social, psychological, and spiritual relationships in our nursing homes. The Committee is granted with advisory capacity, which means that the final decision lies with the person seeking advice. The committee is independent of any other institutional body and is non-denominational.

HOW DOES IT WORK?

The committee regularly meets on a monthly basis and extraordinary meetings are held as often as necessary to address urgent issues or cases as the situation requires.

WHO CAN MAKE CONSULTATIONS AND HOW TO DO SO?

Users of Amavir’s services, their families, staff, and collaborating organizations may present inquiries to the committee through this contact form. All consultations will be treated as strictly confidential. It may also be helpful to download this template form to present a case.

WHAT TOPICS ARE OPEN FOR CONSULTATION?

Consultations can be made on the following topics:

• Competence and decision-making capacity (competence assessment, freedom to decide the activities one wants to participate in, forced hospitalizations, coerced signatures, etc.).

• Appropriate therapy for end of life (advance care planning): conflicts related to catheter placement, hydration, pain management, mechanical ventilation, etc.

• Use and/or abuse of physical and chemical restraints.

• Informed consent.

• Autonomy (infantilization and paternalism in the treatment of the elderly, pact of silence, withholding information from the resident, etc.).

• Dignified care (physical, psychological, social, and spiritual).

• Privacy, affectivity, and sexuality in the elderly.

• Confidentiality (treatment of a person’s biological and biographical data).

• Quality of social health care.