Meals on wheels

摘要

This case reflects a potential or perceived tension among several important moral principles and commitments: beneficence, reflected in Meals on Wheels's efforts to meet this elderly man's nutritional needs and the nurse's efforts to meet his health needs; justice, reflected in the nurse's concerns about his nonconsumption of the food provided to him when other homebound seniors also need meal delivery; and individual autonomy, as expressed in his freedom to advance his own sense of well-being by using the food provided to him in whatever way will maximize that which he most values.