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DEMENTIA
A biased picture of progressive illness may cloud people’s views on euthanasia.
Patients need not be competent to be euthanised.
Dutch EAS doctors use past statements to determine what demented patients want.
Should we honour advanced directives which instruct carers to dispatch people with dementia?
Two new themed editions of journals deal with the ethics of ageing.
A controversial case of euthanasia for a demented patient has come under renewed criticism.
If so, how can the present person bind the future person through an advance directive?
A new study claims that 91% of Quebec caregivers agree with MAiD for the demented.
Yes, say German and Dutch bioethicists; they don't know their own mind
... if there is an advance directive.
The number of cases of Alzheimer’s disease is set to treble by 2050, according to the peak dementia research group, Alzheimer’s Disease International (ADI).
Negative attitudes towards Alzheimer’s disease are undue influence on the euthanasia debate, claims an Australian bioethicist.
The World Health Organization says that dementia could be an even greater challenge than HIV/AIDS in the 21st century. A report released this week by WHO and Alzheimer’s Disease International (ADI) calls upon governments, policymakers and other stakeholders to make it a global public health priority.
"There is no reason for them to do that," says doctor
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