Dementia and Aging: Ethics, Values, and Policy ChoicesRobert H. Binstock, Stephen G. Post, Peter J. Whitehouse Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992-09-01 - 208 psl. Several million Americans are afflicted with Alzheimer's disease or a related dementing disorder. For families, professional caregivers, policy makers, and the patients themselves, the challenges are immense and the economic costs are staggering. In Dementia and Aging Robert H. Binstock, Stephen G. Post, and Peter J. Whitehouse bring together experts in gerontology, geriatrics, psychiatry, neurology, nursing, ethics, philosophy, public policy, and law to examine the ethical, moral, and policy controversies surrounding dementia. The authors first present background information on dementia and related ethical and policy issues. The remainder of the book is divided into three parts. Part One conveys the difficulties experienced by dementia patients and their caregivers. Part Two deals with ethical and moral issues involved in decisions regarding treatment and care, including the highly controversial subject of euthanasia. Part Three lays out societal choices regarding the allocation of resources for treatment, care, and research on dementia. |
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... preferences and values the patient expressed while competent ; that is , treatment should be what the patient " would want " if competent to choose . The underly- ing assumption is that the competent individual's concept of personal ...
... preference for what is generally labeled the subjective , or substituted judgment , approach . This prefer- ence is ... preferences they had as compe- tent persons . This evidence may be in the form 72 TREATMENT DECISIONS , ADVANCE ...
... preferences , they do not , properly speaking , implement the patient's right to choose , because the patient has made no actual choice " ( 1988 , p . 377 ) . Although it may be morally defensible to incorporate general informa- tion ...
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The Medical Perspective | 21 |
The Experience of Being Demented | 30 |
Seeing and Knowing Dementia | 44 |
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