The law and ethics of dementia / edited by Charles Foster, Jonathan Herring and Israel Doron.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Doron, Israel, editor.

Foster, Charles, 1962- editor.

Herring, Jonathan, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Dementia--Law and legislation.

Dementia.

Dementia--Patients--Legal status, laws, etc.

Medical ethics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (572 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford, United Kingdom ; Portland, Oregon : Hart Publishing, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Dementia is a topic of enormous human, medical, economic, legal and ethical importance. Its importance grows as more of us live longer. The legal and ethical problems it raises are complex, intertwined and under-discussed. This book brings together contributions from clinicians, lawyers and ethicists - all of them world leaders in the field of dementia - and is a comprehensive, scholarly yet accessible library of all the main (and many of the fringe) perspectives. It begins with the medical facts: what is dementia? Who gets it? What are the current and future therapeutic and palliative options? What are the main challenges for medical and nursing care? The story is then taken up by the ethicists, who grapple with questions such as: is it legitimate to lie to dementia patients if that is a kind thing to do? Who is the person whose memory, preferences and personality have all been transformed by their disease? Should any constraints be placed on the sexual activity of patients? Are GPS tracking devices an unpardonable interference with the patient's freedom? These issues, and many more, are then examined through legal lenses. The book closes with accounts from dementia sufferers and their carers. It is the first and only book of its kind, and the authoritative text.

Contents:

What is dementia?

Elissa L Ash

The demographics of dementia

Israel (Issi) Doron

The genetics of dementia

Sophie Behrman, Klaus P Ebmeier and Charlotte L Allan

Can dementia be prevented?

Amos D Korczyn and Veronika Vakhapova

Clinical management of dementia : an overview (1)

Noa Bregman and Orna Moore

Clinical management of dementia : an overview (2)

Chris Fox, Carolyn Chew-Graham, Emma Wolverson, Ian Maidment and Andrea Hilton

Best interests determination : a medical perspective

Hugh Series

Advance decisions and proxy decision-making in the elderly : a medical perspective

Gary Sinoff and Natalia Blaja-Lisnic

The happy dementia patient

Dementia : a perspective from primary care

Daniel Lasserson

Dementia : an ethical overview

Michael Dunn

Best interest determinations and substituted judgement : personhood and precedent autonomy

Andrew McGee

Proxy decision-making

José Miola

Telling the truth : the ethics of deception and white lies in dementia care

Maartje Schermer

Research on patients with dementia

Adrian Treloar and Claudia Dunlop

Genetics and dementia : ethical concerns

Caroline J. Huang, Michael Parker and Matthew L. Baum

Common perceptions of dementia

Perla Werner

Ethical perspectives on end-of-life care : euthanasia, assisted suicide and the refusal of or withdrawal of life-sustaining treatments in those living with dementia

Michael Gordon

Resource allocation issues in dementia

Leah Rand and Mark Sheehan

Sexuality in dementia

Julia C Hughes, Aileen Beatty and Jeanette Shippen

The use of new technologies in managing dementia patients

Julian C Hughes

Abuse safeguarding and dementia

Bridget Penhale

A legal overview

Mary Donnelly

Assessing capacity

Lesley King and Hugh Series

Best interests and dementia

Jonathan Herring

Proxy decision-making : a legal perspective

Winsor C Schmidt

Being and being lost : personal identity and dementia

Jesee Wall

Dementia, autonomy and guardianship for the old

Margaret Isabel Hall

Restriction of liberty

Michael Schindler and Yael Waksman

Phil Bielby

Dementia and carers : relationality and informal carers' experiences

Rosie Harding

End-of-life care

Ofra G Golan

Health care resource allocation issues in dementia

Keith Syrett

The use of new technologies in the managment of dementia patiens

Karen Eltis

Discrimination

Doug Surtees

Physical, financial and other abuse

Ruijia Chen, E-Shien Chang, Melissa Simon and Xinqi Dong

Driving and dementia

Desmond O'Neill

Voting and political participation

Nina A Kohn

Tis is my life

Peter JS Ashley

Dad's dementia

Andrew Billen

Lewy body disease : a carer's perspective

Sue Berkeley and Rob Berkeley

Our journey

Shirley Nurock

The power of imagination

Peter Richards

Dementia care : workpoints

U Hla Htay.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781849468503

1849468508

9781849468190

1849468192

OCLC:

1154849312