Dignity for deeply forgetful people : how caregivers can meet the challenges of Alzheimer's disease /
"A new ethics guideline for caregivers of "deeply forgetful people" and a program on how to communicate and connect based on 30 years of community dialogues through Alzheimer's organizations across the globe"--
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Baltimore, Maryland :
Johns Hopkins University Press,
2022.
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Table of Contents:
- In praise of caregivers and dignity
- Hope in caring for deeply forgetful people, why it matters and where to find it
- Answers to sixteen questions caregivers ask from diagnosis to dying
- Seventeenth question: preemptive physician-assissted suicide (PPAS) for alzheimer's disease, a caution
- Caregiver's ethical purpose, preserving dignity, ten manifestations of care, and respect for the whole story of a life
- Respecting the preferences of deeply forgetful people in health care and research
- "Is grandma still there?" the mystery of continuing self-identity
- An epilogue: North wind.
