Article CMF file 71 Dementia - A 21st century challenge Dementia is on the increase and is often more feared than a cancer diagnosis not least because it is as...

Spring 2020 Book Reviews Reviews Dementia from the Inside A Doctor s personal journey of hope Dr Jennifer Bute with Louise Morse SPCKPublishing 2018 9 00 116pp ISBN 9780281080694 Reviewed by...

... take on projects and complete them in the given time Do you have a not my patient not my problem attitude to the patient with dementia who needs guiding back to their bed Be honest with yourself and with God Thank God for the areas of integrity you do exhibit and...

... s best interests The BMA s draft new guidance would enable doctors to dehydrate and sedate to death large numbers of non-imminently dying patients with dementia stroke Parkinson s permanent vegetative state PVS and minimally conscious state MCS see here and here At the same time a report from the American...

... tools that displace There does seem to be a difference between real presence and the virtual variety BBC News 19 February 2009 Long hours and dementia risk A Finnish-led study analysed 2 214 middle aged British civil servants and found that those working more than 55 hours a week had poorer...

... newborns is a logical development Have they done a favour to scaremongering pro-life campaigners J Med Ethics2013 39 5 with subsequent contributors to the debate Dementia biggest challenge Dementia has replaced cancer as the biggest challenge facing the NHS Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt has said He has announced that vulnerable elderly...

... aren t tolerant Sometimes they re not medically or mentally fit enough to treat you as you should be treated for example if they have dementia But I ve also come across patients who just want to get across their point that they don t like you Some colleagues are like...

... for the first time in the making of the documentary It is a matter of public knowledge that Pratchett himself suffers from a form of dementia that he expects to progress relentlessly until it causes his own death Pratchett s own journey as he considered whether he felt physician assisted suicide...

... the week applied the theological principles previously considered This took the discussion into the medical realm by exploring human identity - the mind-brain relationship consciousness dementia and end-of-life care As the talks progressed each pointed to a biblical narrative which transforms and expands our perspective on what it means to be...

... increased by 10-20 per year in the Netherlands since 2006 4 In Belgium which is currently considering extending the law to children and those with dementia there has been an increase of over 500 since 2003 5 High profile cases in Belgium have heightened concern Mark and Eddy Verbessem 45-year-old deaf...