Full Description
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" Binstock, Post, and 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.
Contents
Ethics, policies, and dementia; how dementia is experiences; societal images of the demented elderly; human dignity and dementia; treatment decisionmaking and the demented self; whose life is it?; should we euthanize the demented elderly?; dementia and the boundaries of euthanasia; dementia and appropriate care; a framework for achieving appropriate care; the future of public policy.
