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Book Review: Geriatrics and the Law

Marshall B. Kapp is an attorney with an M.P .H. degree, while Arthur Bigot, Ph.D., has had special training in social psychology and social gerontology. In the preface to Geriatrics and the Law, Kapp and Bigot stress that as the numbers of elderly increase, "health care professionals are more and more likely to encounter older individuals as consumers of their clinical services." (p. xi) The authors also explain that "it is frequently impossible to separate the medical aspects of care from the legal elements." (p. xiz) The purpose of the book is to fill what Kapp and Bigot regard as a "medicolegal void'' in the gerontological literature concerning the delivery of health care services to the elderly. The intended readers of the book are "health care professionals-physicians, nurses, psychologists, hospital and nursing home trustees, and allied health professionals-who are engaged to some extent, be it on a full-time basis or only sporadically, in rendering clinical services to older adults." (p. xiz)