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• Title:Ethical foundations of palliative care for Alzheimer disease / edited by Ruth B. Purtilo and Henk A.M.J. ten Have ; foreword by Christine K. Cassel.
  
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• Other Contributors/Collections:Purtilo, Ruth B.
  ten Have, H.
  
• Published/Created:Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, ©2004.
  

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  • Location:WOODWARD LIBRARY stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: WT155 .E84 2004
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Alzheimer's disease--Patients--Palliative treatment--Moral and ethical aspects.
  Palliative treatment--Moral and ethical aspects.
  Alzheimer's disease--Patients--Hospice care--Moral and ethical aspects.
  
• Medical Subjects: Alzheimer Disease--nursing.
  Ethics, Professional.
  Palliative Care.
  
• Description:xxi, 368 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
  
• ISBN:0801878705 (hbk.)
  
• Contents:Foreword / Christine K. Cassel
  Introduction : historical overview of a current global challenge / Henk A. M. J. ten Have and Ruth B. Purtilo
  Pt. I. health care challenge of Alzheimer disease : basic societal, pathological, and clinical issues
  1. Darkness cometh : personal, social, and economic burdens of Alzheimer disease / Richard L. O'Brien
  2. Neuropathology and symptomatology in Alzheimer disease : implications for caregiving and competence / Roger A. Brumback
  3. clinical challenge of uncertain diagnosis and prognosis in patients with dementia / David A. Bennahum
  Pt. II. European voices on U.S. and European models of palliative care
  4. Expanding the scope of palliative care / Henk A. M. J. ten Have
  5. Hospital-based palliative care and dementia, or what do we treat patients for and how do we do it? / Marcel G. M. Olde Rikkert and Anne-Sophie Rigaud
  6. Elderly persons with advanced dementia : an opportunity for a palliative culture in medicine / Pierre Boitte
  Pt. III. Philosophical and theological explorations
  7. Autonomy and the lived body in cases of severe dementia / Wim J. M. Dekkers
  8. moral self as patient / Judith Lee Kissell
  9. practice of palliative care and the theory of medical ethics : Alzheimer disease as an example / Rien Janssens
  Pt. IV. Clinical ethics issues : focus on patients and caregivers
  10. tendency of contemporary decision-making strategies to deny the condition of Alzheimer disease / Jos V. M. Welie
  11. Advance directives and end-of-life decision making in Alzheimer disease : practical challenges / Winifred J. Ellenchild Pinch
  12. Saying no to patients with Alzheimer disease: rethinking relations among personhood, autonomy, and world / Franz J. Illhardt
  13. ethical challenge of treating pain in Alzheimer disease : a dental case / Gunilla Nordenram
  14. Alzheimer disease and euthanasia / Bert Gordijn
  Pt. V. Organizational ethics issues : educational initiatives, laws, and allocation decisions
  15. role of nurses and nursing education in the palliative care of patients and their families / Elizabeth Furlong
  16. Ethical dimensions of Alzheimer disease decision making : the need for early patient and family education / Linda S. Scheirton
  17. Changing patterns of protection and care for incapacitated adults : perspectives from a European society in transition / Eugenijus Gefenas
  18. Social marginalization of persons with disability : justice considerations for Alzheimer disease / Ruth B. Purtilo
  Commentary on part V : a clinician's commentary from a post-Soviet society on organizational issues of care for Alzheimer disease / Givi Javashvili
  Pt. VI. Research underpinnings for an ethical model of palliative care
  19. Biomedical research in Alzheimer disease / Patricio F. Reyes
  20. Conducting research in the Alzheimer disease population : balancing individual, group, family, and societal interests / Soren Holm
  21. Drugs and dementia : pharmacotherapy and decision making by primary caregivers / Amy M. Haddad
  App. A. Declaration of Berg en Dal on ethical principles guiding palliative care of persons with Alzheimer's disease
  Commentary / Jos V. M. Welie and Bert Gordijn
  App. B. Framework for an educational module for health professionals / Richard L. O'Brien and Wim J. M. Dekkers.