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Ethical issues in dementia care : making difficult decisions / Julian C. Hughes and Clive Baldwin.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hughes, Julian C.
- Series:
- Bradford Dementia Group good practice guides.
- Bradford Dementia Group good practice guides
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Dementia--Patients--Care--Moral and ethical aspects.
- Dementia.
- Medical ethics.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (146 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- London ; Philadelphia : Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2006.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This book considers ethical decisions in the context of relationships, treatment, safety and quality of life. It draws on the experiences of family carers as well as on existing research and emphasizes the importance of empathy and the need to acknowledge different perspectives in order to reach the best decision for the person with dementia
- Contents:
- Making moral decisions: from consequences, duties and principles of conscience
- Being true: relationships, empathic understanding and communication
- Concerned to treat
- Keeping them safe
- It's the quality that counts, but how to we decide?
- Making decisions in practice.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 136-137) and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 9786610929313
- 9781280929311
- 1280929316
- 9781846425585
- 1846425581
- OCLC:
- 122940018
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