Considering the growing number of elderly people who sometimes are affected by chronic health conditions and are out of therapeutic possibility, it is beneficial to understand the relationship of the principles of bioethics in the demands that permeate palliative care to elderly patients, in the view of offering a dignified survival. The approach from the fundamentals of the principialist bioethics proposes the guarantee of the principles of beneficence, non-maleficence, justice and autonomy, in order to provide dignity, quality and comfort to the elderly in terminally life. Thus, this article aims to propose a reflection about palliative care for the elderly in light of bioethics.
Palliative care; Demographic aging; Health of the elderly; Bioethics