Tag / dementia
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Ethics Dispatch March 2025
This month’s Ethics Dispatch offers five guidelines to help healthcare providers understand ICE’s legal boundaries, a case study involving an immigrant mother of a young cancer patient, and ethical musings about fear of the “other” and its impact on society.
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Case Study – Personhood in the Age of Dementia
Bioethics case study on personhood and dementia in video and print. Patients should be allowed to make their own medical decisions, which means a person should be allowed to make their own medical decisions. But how do you define what a person is regarding cognitive decline in patients and dementia?
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Ethics Dispatch February 2025
As dementia cases continue to rise, healthcare systems will be faced with an increasing number of difficult discharge decisions. In this issue of the Ethics Dispatch, CPB raises questions about the ethical implications of dementia care and discusses upholding the principle of obligatory beneficence when addressing hospital discharges and long-term care planning.
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