DEMENTIA

Euthanasia polling data may fail to capture people’s considered views

Xavier Symons | 15 August 2020 | Comments

tags: dementia, euthanasia, law, maid, public opinion

A biased picture of progressive illness may cloud people’s views on euthanasia.

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Dutch court rules patients with advanced dementia can be euthanised

Xavier Symons | 25 April 2020 | Comments

tags: consent, dementia, euthanasia, netherlands

Patients need not be competent to be euthanised.

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Researchers cast spotlight on Dutch euthanasia for dementia

Xavier Symons | 27 October 2019 | Comments

tags: consent, dementia, euthanasia, law, netherlands

Dutch EAS doctors use past statements to determine what demented patients want.

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Dementia’s Catch-22

Michael Cook | 26 August 2018 | Comments

tags: advance directives, assisted suicide, dementia, euthanasia

Should we honour advanced directives which instruct carers to dispatch people with dementia?

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The ethical complexities of ageing

Xavier Symons | 28 April 2018 | Comments

tags: ageing, dementia, end of life care, euthanasia

Two new themed editions of journals deal with the ethics of ageing.

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Netherlands euthanasia case under renewed scrutiny

Xavier Symons | 10 March 2018 | Comments

tags: advance directives, dementia, euthanasia, netherlands

A controversial case of euthanasia for a demented patient has come under renewed criticism.

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Is a dementia patient two different people?

Michael Cook | 27 January 2018 | Comments

tags: advance directives, dementia, euthanasia, euthanasia for dementia

If so, how can the present person bind the future person through an advance directive?

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Nine out of ten Quebec caregivers support MAiD for the demented – new study

Xavier Symons | 14 October 2017 | Comments

tags: canada, dementia, euthanasia, maid

A new study claims that 91% of Quebec caregivers agree with MAiD for the demented.

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Should happy demented people be euthanized?

Michael Cook | 04 June 2016 | Comments

tags: advance directives, dementia, euthanasia

Yes, say German and Dutch bioethicists; they don't know their own mind

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Demented patients can be euthanized in Netherlands

Michael Cook | 10 January 2016 | Comments

tags: dementia, euthanasia, Netherlands

... if there is an advance directive.

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Rates of Alzheimer’s set to treble by 2050

Xavier Symons | 07 December 2013 | Comments

tags: Alzheimer's disease, dementia

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).

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Alzheimer’s and the euthanasia debate

Michael Cook | 25 May 2013 | Comments

tags: Alzheimer's disease, assisted suicide, dementia, euthanasia

Negative attitudes towards Alzheimer’s disease are undue influence on the euthanasia debate, claims an Australian bioethicist.

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Dementia could become a fiscal nightmare, says WHO

Michael Cook | 13 April 2012 | Comments

tags: dementia, public health

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.

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A kind of death

Michael Cook | 17 September 2011 | Comments

tags: Alzheimer's disease, dementia

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Are UK nursing homes cutting costs with PEG tubes?

Michael Cook | 06 January 2010 | Comments

tags: dementia, end of life, nursing homes

"There is no reason for them to do that," says doctor