The Irrelevance of Origins: Dementia, Advance Directives, and the Capacity for Preferences

Authors :: Jason Adam Wasserman
Mark Christopher Navin
Source :: The American Journal of Bioethics. 20:98-100
Publication Year :: 2020
Publisher :: Informa UK Limited, 2020.
Abstract: We agree with Emily Walsh (2020) that the current preferences of patients with dementia should sometimes supersede those patients’ advance directives. We also agree that consensus clinical ethics g...

Subjects :: medicine.medical_specialty
Health Policy
education
MEDLINE
Cognition
medicine.disease
Issues, ethics and legal aspects
Informed consent
medicine
Terminal care
Dementia
Clinical Ethics
Psychology
Psychiatry

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