Commentary on "sexuality and intimacy in the nursing home"

Journal of Clinical Ethics

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 314-317

  Post, Stephen G ^a  

^a CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; DEMENTIA; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HOME FOR THE AGED; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICAL ETHICS; MENTAL CAPACITY; MENTAL HEALTH THERAPIES; NOTE; NURSING HOME; PATIENT ADVOCACY; PROFESSIONAL PATIENT RELATIONSHIP; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUALITY OF LIFE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUALITY; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; SPOUSE; STANDARD;

MENTAL HEALTH THERAPIES; PROFESSIONAL PATIENT RELATIONSHIP;

AGED; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; DEMENTIA; DISEASE PROGRESSION; ETHICS, MEDICAL; FEMALE; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HOMES FOR THE AGED; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL COMPETENCY; NURSING HOMES; PATIENT ADVOCACY; PREJUDICE; QUALITY OF LIFE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL PARTNERS; SPOUSES;

EID: 0034569868     PISSN: 10467890     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

References (10)

1. L.K. Wright, Alzheimer's Disease and Marriage: An Intimate Account (Newbury Park: Calif.: Sage, 1993).
2. S. Hart, The Lady From the Centre: A Guide to the Professional Caregiver's Universe (York, Canada: Alzheimer Society of York Region, 1997).
3. Ibid., 41.
4. Ibid., 42.
5. See note 1 above.
6. See S.G. Post, The Moral Challenge of Alzheimer Disease: Ethical Issues from Diagnosis to Dying, rev. (Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000).
7. S.G. Post, "Alzheimer Disease and the 'Then' Self," Journal of the Kennedy Institute of Ethics 5, no. 4 (1995): 307-21.
8. For compelling refutations of the writings of Rebecca Dresser, for example, see M. Quante, "Precedent Autonomy and Personal Identity," Journal of the Kennedy Institute of Ethics 9, no. 4 (1999): 365-81; see also H. Klepper and M. Rorty, "Personal Identity, Advance Directives, and Genetic Testing for Alzheimer Disease," Genetic Testing 3 (1999): 99-106. In both of these articles, my own balanced position has been affirmed in contrast with the opinions of Dresser.
9. For compelling refutations of the writings of Rebecca Dresser, for example, see M. Quante, "Precedent Autonomy and Personal Identity," Journal of the Kennedy Institute of Ethics 9, no. 4 (1999): 365-81; see also H. Klepper and M. Rorty, "Personal Identity, Advance Directives, and Genetic Testing for Alzheimer Disease," Genetic Testing 3 (1999): 99-106. In both of these articles, my own balanced position has been affirmed in contrast with the opinions of Dresser.
10. T. Kitwood, Dementia Reconsidered: The Person Comes First (Buckingham, England: Open University Press, 1997).