Dementia, Advance Directives, and Discontinuity of Personality

We argue that an advance directive (AD) is not invalidated by personality changes in dementia, as is claimed by Rebecca Dresser. The claim is that a new person results under such personality changes, and that the former person cannot write an AD for the new person. After stating the argument against...

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Authors: Demarco, Joseph P. (Author) ; Lipuma, Samuel H. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: 2016
In: Cambridge quarterly of healthcare ethics
Year: 2016, Volume: 25, Issue: 4, Pages: 674-685
Further subjects:B Advance Directives
B Personal Identity
B personality change
B Dementia
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