Law and Ethics of Dementia

1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-1-84946-417-8
Verlag: Bloomsbury 3PL

Buch, Englisch, 449 Seiten, Hardback, Format (B × H): 175 mm x 250 mm, Gewicht: 1154 g

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.

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Foster, Charles

Herring, Jonathan

Doron, Israel

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Öffentliches Recht Medizin- und Gesundheitsrecht
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Angewandte Ethik & Soziale Verantwortung Medizinische Ethik
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Medizinrecht, Gesundheitsrecht
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Medizinische Ethik
• Rechtswissenschaften Ausländisches Recht Common Law (UK, USA, Australien u.a.)

Inhaltsverzeichnis

PART I: MEDICAL FUNDAMENTALS
1. What is Dementia?

Elissa L Ash
2. The Demographics of Dementia

Israel (Issi) Doron
3. The Genetics of Dementia

Sophie Behrman, Klaus P Ebmeier and Charlotte L Allan
4. Can Dementia be Prevented?

Amos D Korczyn and Veronika Vakhapova
5. Clinical Management of Dementia: An Overview (1)

Noa Bregman and Orna Moore
6. Clinical Management of Dementia: An Overview (2)

Chris Fox, Carolyn Chew-Graham, Emma Wolverson, Ian Maidment and Andrea Hilton
7. Best Interests Determination: A Medical Perspective

Hugh Series
8. Advance Decisions and Proxy Decision-Making in the Elderly: A Medical Perspective

Gary Sinoff and Natalia Blaja-Lisnic
9. The Happy Dementia Patient

Hugh Series
10. Dementia: A Perspective from Primary Care

Daniel Lasserson

PART II: ETHICAL PERSPECTIVES
11. Dementia: An Ethical Overview

Michael Dunn
12. Best Interests Determinations and Substituted Judgement: Personhood and Precedent Autonomy

Andrew McGee
13. Proxy Decision-Making

José Miola
14. Telling the Truth: The Ethics of Deception and White Lies in Dementia Care

Maartje Schermer
15. Research on Patients with Dementia

Adrian Treloar and Claudia Dunlop
16. Genetics and Dementia: Ethical Concerns
Caroline J Huang, Michael Parker and Matthew L Baum
17. Common Perceptions of Dementia
Perla Werner
18. 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
19. Resource Allocation Issues in Dementia
Leah Rand and Mark Sheehan
20. Sexuality in Dementia

Julian C Hughes, Aileen Beatty and Jeanette Shippen
21. The Use of New Technologies in Managing Dementia Patients

Julian C Hughes
22. Abuse, Safeguarding and Dementia

Bridget Penhale

PART III: LEGAL PERSPECTIVES
23. A Legal Overview

Mary Donnelly
24. Assessing Capacity

Lesley King and Hugh Series
25. Best Interests and Dementia

Jonathan Herring
26. Proxy Decision-Making: A Legal Perspective

Winsor C Schmidt
27. Being and Being Lost: Personal Identity and Dementia

Jesse Wall
28. Dementia, Autonomy and Guardianship for the Old

Margaret Isabel Hall
29. Restriction of Liberty

Michael Schindler and Yael Waksman
30. Research on Patients with Dementia

Phil Bielby
31. Dementia and Carers: Relationality and Informal
Carers' Experiences

Rosie Harding
32. End-of-Life Care

Ofra G Golan
33. Health Care Resource Allocation Issues in Dementia

Keith Syrett
34. The Use of New Technologies in the Management of Dementia Patients

Karen Eltis

PART IV: SOCIAL ASPECTS OF DEMENTIA
35. Discrimination

Doug Surtees
36. Physical, Financial and other Abuse

Ruijia Chen, E-Shien Chang, Melissa Simon and XinQi Dong
37. Driving and Dementia

Desmond O'Neill
38. Voting and Political Participation

Nina A Kohn

PART V: PATIENT AND CARER PERSPECTIVES
39. This is My Life

Peter JS Ashley
40. Dad's Dementia
Andrew Billen
41. Lewy Body Disease: A Carer's Perspective

Sue Berkeley and Rob Berkeley
42. Our Journey

Shirley Nurock
43. The Power of Imagination

Peter Richards
44. Dementia Care: Workpoints

U Hla Htay

Über Autor(innen)

Herring, Jonathan
Jonathan Herring is Professor of Law at the University of Oxford and Fellow in Law at Exeter College, Oxford, UK.

Foster, Charles
Charles Foster is a Fellow of Green Templeton College, University of Oxford and a practising barrister.

Doron, Israel
Israel Doron is Head of the Department of Gerontology, University of Haifa.

Charles Foster is a Fellow of Green Templeton College, University of Oxford and a practising barrister.

Jonathan Herring is Professor of Law at the University of Oxford.

Israel Doron is Head of the Department of Gerontology, University of Haifa.