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http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijwd.2017.01.002 | DOI Listing |
J Med Ethics
January 2025
Medicine for Older People, AmsterdamUMC Location VUmc, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Euthanasia in dementia based on advance euthanasia directives (AEDs) is possible within the Dutch Euthanasia law. Yet, physicians struggle with the responsibility of interpreting the law's open norms in cases of advanced dementia, which includes the fulfilment of the due care criteria. This Delphi study aims to analyse arguments and seek consensus from medical, ethical and legal perspectives on ethical dilemmas in such cases.
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January 2025
Ethics in Medicine, Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg, Oldenburg, Germany.
Introduction: The concept of privacy marks an astonishing gap in the discussion about care for people with dementia (PwD). In general, questions of privacy play an important role and attract much attention in the ethics of nursing care. Yet, when it comes to dementia care, there is hardly any systematic ethical debate on the topic at all.
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January 2025
Department of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, Faculty of Medicine, Medical Center - University of Freiburg, University of Freiburg, Hugstetter Str. 55, 79106, Freiburg, Germany.
Planta
January 2025
Department of Biomedical Engineering and Science, Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne, FL, 32901, USA.
The starch-statolith theory was established science for a century when the existence of gravitropic, starchless mutants questioned its premise. However, detailed kinetic studies support a statolith-based mechanism for graviperception. Gravitropism is the directed growth of plants in response to gravity, and the starch-statolith hypothesis has had a consensus among scientists as the accepted model for gravity perception.
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January 2025
Department of Medical Psychology, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany.
The moral authority of advance directives (ADs) in the context of persons living with dementia (PLWD) has sparked a multifaceted debate, encompassing concerns such as authenticity and the appropriate involvement of caregivers. Dresser critiques ADs based on Parfit's account of numeric personal identity, using the often-discussed case of a PLWD called Margo. She claims that dementia leads to a new manifestation of Margo emerging, which then contracts pneumonia.
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