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With this second edition of The Moral Challenge of Alzheimer Disease, Post has enlarged upon his original work in a way to make it even more useful and current. The updated version now gives a highly readable strategy for dealing with end-of-life issues, such as artificial tube feeding and dehydration. In his characteristically clear manner, Post equips us with the necessary facts and then cogently suggest how to proceed humanely and with absolute consideration of the person who should be at the center of concern.
Post has provided a well-researched book with an outstanding bibliography that will be helpful to all caregivers as well as health care providers. The text provides information to guide readers before and during ethical and moral decision making and is very sensitive to the various emotions one endures when the diagnosis is AD.
In summary, then, Post proposes a new ethic in regard to terminal dementia care. The considerations proposed in this book offer a meaningful guide to both health care professionals and families in dealing with these special issues and advocate a natural death for these patients, freeing families from the sometimes enormous sense of guilt they encounter in making decisions about life extending interventions.
Health professionals who deal with dementia, as well as family members who care for relatives who become disabled, will find this book thoughtful, engaging, and provocative.
The genuine concern and caring that permeates this well-researched, informative and moving book leads me to recommend it highly both to academic and general readers.
This is a much needed and inspirational addition to the literature of Alzheimer's disease... Ethics Committees will find it invaluable as will nursing home administrators, directors of nursing, and all who care for people no longer able to care for themselves.
An intelligent and morally informed treatment of dementia in the aged.
Full of nourishing food for thought... The Moral Challenge of Alzheimer Disease presents the reader with a clear offering of concerns, ideas, and issues about the quality of life and quality of choice issues.
Stephen Post has produced an outstanding, potentially classic book. It is well written, clear, patiently argued, and broadly referenced. Readers can learn much about Alzheimer's disease from this book.
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Available
Trim Size
6
x 9
Pages
176
ISBN
9780801864100
Table of Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1. The Moral Challenge of Alzheimer Disease: Defining the Task
Chapter 2. The Family Caregiver: Partnership in Hope
Chapter 3. Fairhill Guidelines on Ethics and the Care of
Preface
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1. The Moral Challenge of Alzheimer Disease: Defining the Task
Chapter 2. The Family Caregiver: Partnership in Hope
Chapter 3. Fairhill Guidelines on Ethics and the Care of People with Alzheimer Disease
Chapter 4. Genetic Education for a Too-Hopeful Public
Chapter 5. The Humane Goal: Enhancing the Well-Being of Persons with Dementia
Chapter 6. Dying with Dignity: The Case Against Artificial Nutrition and Hydration
Chapter 7. An Argument Against Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia in the Context of Progressive Dementia
Chapter 8. Toward a New Ethics of Dementia Care
References
Index
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