... of artificial nutrition or hydration from incompetent patients The guidelines broaden the criteria to include individuals who have suffered a serious stroke or have severe dementia as well as those in persistent vegetative state PVS 2 A new alliance of doctors the Medical Alliance Opposed to the Guidance on the Removal...

... published in June1999 The BMA guidance condoned the withdrawal of artificial nutrition or hydration from patients who have suffered a serious stroke or have severe dementia with the agreement of a senior clinician Many felt this gave doctors a licence to starve or dehydrate seriously brain-damaged though not terminally ill patients...

... a man recovering from depression about his hopes and aspirations we see her sit with a dying child and care for a woman with profound dementia she lays bare the smells the mess the pain and despair as well as the hope joy and relief with which each day confronts nurses...

... euthanasia has increased from its narrow base with safeguards limiting it to mentally competent terminally ill adults to involuntary euthanasia of infants and those with dementia and to those without life-limiting conditions There are yet again current attempts in England Scotland and the Channel Islands to bring such legislation to the...

spring 2018 Book Reviews Reviews Thinking of You A resource for the spiritual care of people with dementia Joanna Collicutt BRF 2017 9 99 256pp ISBN 9780857464910 Reviewed by Cameron Swift Emeritus Professor of Geriatric Medicine based in Kent The topic of dementia...

Easter 2010 Eutychus eutychus eutychus Skin cells to brain cells With dementia and degenerative neurological diseases driving demand for euthanasia and assisted suicide encouraging research has shown that 20 of skin cells from mice tails could be...

September 2017 Reviews film Still Alice Bukola Ogunjinmi reviews a moving account of living with early onset dementia You are more than what you can remember and you are more than what you do for a living So says Lisa Genova the author...

... to nursing homes in order to release beds for other patients who need our specialist services I have little experience in looking after those with dementia and none in the use of anti-dementia drugs and I would not presume to pass judgement on NICE s decisions in this area I simply...

... wife of Keith the second CMF General Secretary 1974-1989 went to be with the Lord on 23 May after a long battle with Alzheimer s dementia A service of thanksgiving was held at Tewkesbury Abbey on 17 June where CMF was represented Please uphold Keith and the family in your prayers...

... them injections I was able to pray for them and include God in their care I also found that on my last placement on a dementia ward in my free time I was able to play one of the pianos to my patients and found that many of them would respond...