How we think about dementia : personhood, rights, ethics, the arts and what they mean for care /

Providing a much-needed accessible overview of the complex philosophical and ethical underpinnings of dementia care, this book explores current thinking around the concepts of ageing, personhood, capacity, liberty, best interests and the nature of palliative care, shedding new light on their implica...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Hughes, Julian C.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London ; Philadelphia : Jessica Kingsley Publishers, [2014]
Temas:
Dementia.
Dementia > Philosophy.
Dementia > Patients > Care.
Dementia
Démence.
Démence > Philosophie.
Déments > Soins.
Ethics & Moral Philosophy.
HEALTH & FITNESS > Diseases > General.
MEDICAL > Clinical Medicine.
MEDICAL > Diseases.
MEDICAL > Evidence-Based Medicine.
MEDICAL > Internal Medicine.
Dementia > Patients > Care
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • Part I. Ageing :
  • 1. Our Changing Expectations of Life: What Do We Really Want?
  • 2. Research, Ageing and Dementia
  • Part II. Personhood :
  • 3. Memory: Inner or Outer?
  • 4. I Am Still the Same Person
  • 5. The Body in Dementia
  • Part III. Capacity and Incapacity :
  • Chapter 6
  • 6. 'Capacity': What Is It and So What?
  • 7. Capacity Legislation in Practice: Balancing the Personal and the Polis
  • 8. Incapacity and Mental Disorder
  • Part IV. Palliative and Supportive Care :
  • 9. Beyond Hypercognitivism
  • 10. Understanding the Language of Distress
  • 11. Ethics, Patterns, Causes and Pathways: In Pursuit of Good Palliative Care
  • 12. Intentions and Best Interests: Dying and Killing
  • Part V. Arts :
  • 13. The Art and Practice of Memory and Forgetting
  • 14. In Praise of 'Negative Capability': Keats and Killick
  • Conclusion Care
  • Solicitude and solidarity.

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