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Ethical challenges in community nursing for older adults are multilevel—spanning nursing staff, patients, and care systems—and require comprehensive strategies including enhanced ethics education, shared decision-making, and improved institutional governance to mitigate moral distress and systemic pressures. Novelty: ClaimNovelty.SYNTHESIS. Consensus alignment: ConsensusAlignment.NEUTRAL.

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This scoping review aims to identify major ethical issues affecting nursing care for older adults in community settings and analyze their impacts and strategies for improvement.

March 23, 2026Nursing Ethics

Ethical issues in nursing care for older adults in community settings: A scoping review

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LHLei Huang XPXinying PengSichuan University YZYifei Zhao

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Scoping review identifies ethical challenges in nursing care for older adults, suggesting improvements for practice and governance.

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This scoping review aims to identify major ethical issues affecting nursing care for older adults in community settings and analyze their impacts and strategies for improvement.
Conducted a scoping review using JBI methodology.
Searched multiple databases including PubMed and Scopus up to February 2026.
Two reviewers independently screened, extracted, and synthesized data from included studies.
Fourteen studies were included, covering ethical challenges, impacts, and improvement strategies.
Identified challenges include role ambiguity, restrictions on autonomy, and resource allocation issues.
Findings revealed increased moral distress among nurses and reduced trust and adherence from older adults.

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Huang et al. (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/69c0e016fddb9876e79c18ad https://doi.org/10.1177/09697330261437274

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