Dementia and Aging: Ethics, Values, and Policy Choices

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Robert H. Binstock, Stephen G. Post, Peter J. Whitehouse
JHU Press, 1992 - 184
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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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The Challenges of Dementia
1
BIOMEDICAL EXPERIENTIAL AND CAREGIVING
10
The Medical Perspective
21
The Experience of Being Demented
30
Seeing and Knowing Dementia
44
Human Dignity Dementia and the Moral Basis of Caregiving
55
The Limits of Anticipatory Choices
71
A Counter
101
Euthanasia in Alzheimers Disease?
118
Allocating Scarce Resources
141
The Politics of Developing Appropriate Care for Dementia
153
Current Policy Initiatives
171
Index
181
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Dementia and Aging: Ethics, Values, and Policy Choices
Professor of Aging Health and Society Robert H Binstock,Robert H. Binstock,Stephen Garrard Post,Peter J. Whitehouse,Peter J.. Whitehouse
Widok krótkiego opisu - 1992

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Robert H. Binstock, Ph.D., is a professor of Aging, Health, and Society at Case Western Reserve University. Stephen G. Post is the director of the Center for Medical Humanities, Compassionate Care, and Bioethics at the Renaissance School of Medicine at Stony Brook University. He is the author of The Moral Challenge of Alzheimer Disease: Ethical Issues from Diagnosis to Dying.

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TytułDementia and Aging: Ethics, Values, and Policy Choices
RedaktorzyRobert H. Binstock, Stephen G. Post, Peter J. Whitehouse
WydawcaJHU Press, 1992
ISBN0801845459, 9780801845451
Liczba stron184
  
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