Clinicians know that elderly people do not fear death so much as the process of dying.
Because modern therapies are more effective at relieving pain, emotional angst and moral …

Decision-making capacity is a central determinant of an older person's ability to direct her
care. When decision-making capacity exists, a patient or nursing home resident should …

At the beginning of the twenty-first century, dementia has become a widely feared and
common disease. It is a disease that primarily affects older people. While around 6.3 per …

Case 1: Mr. Allen. Mr. Allen is an 80-year-old widower living alone in an unheated rural
shack. His family says he is an alcoholic of 20 years and a loner. He is successfully treated …

What about situations when patients can no longer communicate their choices? For many of
these incapacitated patients, the interval of decisional incapacity lasts months or years, such …

Collectively, these points illustrate that the ability to assess decision-making capacity is not
simply a matter of reluctantly accommodating the dictates of law into the practice of …

The problem of decision-making capacity in patients with dementia, such as those with early
stage Alzheimer's, can be vexing, especially when these patients refuse life-sustaining …

Medical decision-making capacity (DMC), which is determined by clinicians, is the ability of
patients to understand information about options for their care, express a choice among …

As the health of dementia patients declines, those who love and care for them may face
decisions on the level of life-sustaining treatment these patients should receive. Although …

Medical decision-making at the end of life of patients with dementia is a complicated matter,
both medically and morally. First of all, a lot is still unknown on the natural course of the …