“As Long As I’m Me”: From Personhood to Personal Identity in Dementia and Decisionmaking

“As Long As I’m Me”: From Personhood to Personal Identity in Dementia and Decisionmaking

As older people begin to develop dementia, we confront ethical questions about when and how to intervene in their increasingly compromised decision-making. The prevailing approach in bioethics to tackling this challenge has been to develop theories of “decision-making capacity” based on the same cha...

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Main Author: James Toomey
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Programmes de bioéthique, École de santé publique de l'Université de Montréal 2021-06-01
Series:Canadian Journal of Bioethics
Subjects:
dementia
law
personal identity
property
competence
capacity
Online Access:https://cjb-rcb.ca/index.php/cjb-rcb/article/view/326

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