Ethical and legal issues in the care of people with dementia

Reviews in Clinical Gerontology

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 245-268

  Jones, R G ^a  

^a NOTTINGHAM UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS NHS TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPETENCE; DEMENTIA; ETHICS; EUTHANASIA; HUMAN RIGHTS; INFORMED CONSENT; JUSTICE; LAW; LEGAL ASPECT; LONG TERM CARE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; PATIENT CARE; REVIEW;

EID: 0035712766     PISSN: 09592598     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0959259801011364     Document Type: Review

References (125)

1. Ethical and legal issues in the care of demented people
2. Ethical and legal issues in the care of demented people
3. The end of medical ethics
4. Demonising doctors
5. The sanctity of life
6. Ethics and the psychiatry of old age
7. Teaching ethics to medical students
8. Ethics and law for medical students: The core curriculum
9. Telling the truth
10. Deception and lying
11. Would you like to know what is wrong with you? On telling the truth to patients with dementia
12. Public opinion regarding consent to treatment
13. Exercising restraint
14. Exercising restraint: Autonomy, welfare and elderly patients
15. Editorial: Defending 'the four principles' approach to biomedical ethics
16. Medical ethics: Four principles plus scope
17. The autonomy of demented patients: Interviews with caregivers
18. Problems in senile dementia
19. Autonomy and the akratic patient
20. Autonomy, respect for autonomy, and weakness of will
21. A pill in the sandwich: Covert medication in food and drink
22. Concealing medication in patients' food
23. Ethics and the anti-dementia drugs
24. The law and dementia - Legal issues in England and Wales
25. Relationships between various attitudes towards self-determination in health care with special reference to an advanced directive
26. Comparison of patients' and health care professionals' attitudes towards advanced directives
27. Mental incapacity: Some proposals for legislative form
28. Dementia, intelligence, and the competence to complete advance directives
29. Ethical aspects of care of the dying incompetent
30. An ethical framework for terminal care decisions: A new classification of patients
31. Dissociation between the wishes of terminally ill parents and decisions by their offspring
32. Guided by intimates
33. Ethics and anti-dementia drugs
34. Nancy Cruzan and the right to die
35. Advance directives
36. From the patient's point of view: Medical ethics and the moral imagination
37. The decision-making process regarding the withdrawal or withholding of patient life-saving treatments in a children's hospital
38. End-of-life treatment decisions in people with dementia: Carers' views and factors which influence them
39. Slowing the progression of Alzheimer disease: Ethical issues
40. Withdrawal of medical treatment from hopeless case not unlawful
41. Cost containment - Ethical implications
42. Ethics and rationing: 'Whether', 'How', or 'How Much?'
43. A meta-analysis of controlled trials of neuroleptic treatment in dementia
44. Principles of justice in health care rationing
45. Survey of neuroleptic prescribing in residents of nursing homes in Glasgow
46. Neuroleptic prescribing to the community elderly in Nottingham
47. The Expert Consensus Guideline series - Treatment of agitation in older persons with dementia
48. Carers - Problems, strains, and services
49. Priority setting; lessons from Oregon
50. Expecting the worst: Views on the future of long-term care
51. Choices without reason: Citizens' juries and policy evaluation
52. Public views on health care rationing: A group discussion study
53. Priorities in care and services for elderly people: A path with guidelines
54. Short Rations
55. Abortion and infanticide
56. Justice and the severely demented elderly
57. Toward a theory of dementia care: Ethics and interaction
58. Unprincipled QALYs: A response to Cubbon
59. Double jeopardy and the veil of ignorance - A reply
60. The ambiguity about death in Japan; an ethical implication for organ procurement
61. Are medical ethicists out of touch? Practitioner attitudes in the US and UK towards decisions at the end of life
62. Terminal care in old age psychiatry: A survey of professionals' attitudes and approaches
63. Assisted suicide: A right or a surrender?
64. The Appleton Consensus: Suggested international guidelines for decisions to forego medical treatment
65. Withdrawal of life-support from patients in a persistent vegetative state
66. Assisted death
67. Judge rules doctors can let coma woman die
68. Clinical practice: Euthanasia and other medical decisions concerning the end of life
69. Voluntary euthanasia under control? Further empirical evidence from the Netherlands
70. On withholding artificial hydration and nutrition from terminally ill sedated patients. The debate continues
71. Withholding cardiopulmonary resuscitation: Proposals for formal guidelines
72. Views of elderly patients and their relatives on cardiopulmonary resuscitation
73. Guidelines or gumption? The role of medical responsibility: A view from the profession
74. Age Concern
75. Thousands of patients may be detained illegally
76. The capacity to make decisions in dementia: Some contemporary issues
77. Bournewood: An indefensible gap in mental health law
78. The Bournewood judgement: A way forward
79. Mental incapacity - Implications of the Law Commission Report
80. Protecting older human subjects or impeding valuable research? Recent recommendations of the National Bioethics Advisory Commission on research involving the cognitively impaired
81. Ethics of 'informed consent' in dementia research - The debate continues
82. Ethics of research with psychiatric patients: Principles, problems and primary responsibilities of researchers
83. Sterilisation of a mentally incapable woman
84. Assessing patients' capacities to consent to treatment
85. Tests of competency to consent to treatment
86. Competence to consent to treatment as a psycholegal constraint
87. Assessing the competency of patients with Alzheimer's Disease under different legal standards
88. The meaning of incapacity