Sometimes older adults experience health declines that impact their ability to safely care for themselves. Describe the ethical tension social workers may experience in their work with these patients as they work to promote safety and self-determination. Describe how this ethical challenge manifested in your selected case and explain what the social worker did to address it. Evaluate the social worker's management of this ethical challenge and recommend two additional strategies they could have employed. Explain how you would answer the question, "should patients be permitted to make poor decisions.

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