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Ethical questions in the treatment of subjects with dementia. Part I. Respecting autonomy: awareness, competence and behavioural disorders.

C A Defanti¹, A Tiezzi, M Gasparini, M Gasperini, M Congedo, P Tiraboschi, D Tarquini, E Pucci, C Porteri, V Bonito, L Sacco, S Stefanini, L Borghi, L Colombi, N Marcello, O Zanetti, R Causarano, A Primavera.

Abstract

The document deals with some ethical issues raised by the treatment of demented people. In particular the conceptual and empirical aspects of the assessment of awareness and competence of these patients are analysed, as well as the dilemmas related to the treatment of behavioral disorders.

Entities: Disease Species

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Year: 2007 PMID： 17690856 DOI： 10.1007/s10072-006-0825-x

Source DB: PubMed Journal: Neurol Sci ISSN： 1590-1874 Impact factor: 3.307

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Ethical questions in the treatment of subjects with dementia. Part I. Respecting autonomy: awareness, competence and behavioural disorders.

Review 1. Proxy decision making for incompetent patients. An ethical and empirical analysis.

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3. Two domains of anosognosia in Alzheimer's disease.

4. Unawareness of cognitive deficit (cognitive anosognosia) in probable AD and control subjects.

5. Neuropsychologic predictors of competency in Alzheimer's disease using a rational reasons legal standard.

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