https://doi.org/10.4081/gc.2017.6815

Ethics and aging: focus on living will for patients with dementia

Vol. 3 No. 2 (2017)
Submitted: 24 May 2017
Accepted: 3 July 2017
Published: 5 July 2017
Living will, dementia, Alzheimer, geriatrics.
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Alberto Sardella
albi.sardella@gmail.com
Geriatrics and Long Term Care Unit, University of Palermo, Italy.
Laura Vernuccio
Geriatrics and Long Term Care Unit, University of Palermo, Italy.
Floriana Cocita
Geriatrics and Long Term Care Unit, University of Palermo, Italy.
Florenza Inzerillo
Geriatrics and Long Term Care Unit, University of Palermo, Italy.
Ligia J. Dominguez
Geriatrics and Long Term Care Unit, University of Palermo, Italy.
Mario Barbagallo
Geriatrics and Long Term Care Unit, University of Palermo, Italy.
Today dementia certainly represents a public health priority with a huge global impact on wordwide population. However, clinical and social issues related to dementia have long been marginalized. The actual high prevalence of dementias requires also to face issues from a bioethical perspective, regarding how to deal with demented patient’s disposition. There are currently no specific guidelines on the national territory regarding whether to draw up a living will by a patient with dementia, neither about the informative role of physicians during the progressive story of the disease.

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Sardella, A., Vernuccio, L., Cocita, F., Inzerillo, F., Dominguez, L. J., & Barbagallo, M. (2017). Ethics and aging: focus on living will for patients with dementia. Geriatric Care, 3(2). https://doi.org/10.4081/gc.2017.6815

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