Dementia and aging : ethics, values, and policy choices
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 1 conveys the difficulties experienced by dementia patients and their caregivers. Part 2 deals with the ethical and moral issues involved in decisions regarding treatment and care, including the highly controversial subject of euthanasia. Part 3 lays out societal choices regarding the allocation of resources for treatment, care, and research on dementia
Print Book, English, ©1992
Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, ©1992
xviii, 184 pages ; 24 cm
9780801844249, 9780801845451, 080184424X, 0801845459
25205954
Challenges of dementia / Robert H. Binstock, Stephen G. Post and Peter J. Whitehouse
Dementia: the medical perspective / Peter J. Whitehouse
Experience of being demented / Joseph M. Foley
Seeing and knowing dementia / David H. Smith
Human dignity, dementia, and the moral basis of caregiving / Richard J. Martin and Stephen G. Post
Autonomy revisited: the limits of anticipatory choices / Rebecca S. Dresser
Critical view of ethical dilemmas in dementia / Harry R. Moody
Mercy killing of elderly people with dementia: a counterproposal / David C. Thomasma
Euthanasia in Alzheimer's disease? / Margaret P. Battin
Dementia and appropriate care: allocating scarce resources / Daniel Callahan
Politics of developing appropriate care for dementia / Robert H. Binstock and Thomas H. Murray
Alzheimer's disease: current policy initiatives / Gene D. Cohen