... vulnerable members of our species Can babies make decisions Do people in a coma have the capacity to relate to others Do people with profound dementia love pray and believe Second he conflates legal and moral status The fact that the amended Constitution of the USA regards embryos and fetuses as...

... enlightened self-interest There are many wonderful examples of personal and organisational inter-generational harmony and provision that are fulfilling and inspirational including the challenging area of dementia care The growth in public awareness and research investment into the dementias is good news The concept of a good old age with mutually affectionate...

... seriously and permanently ill and disabled such as those on long-term life-support and those in the persistent vegetative state Thirdly there are those with irreversible dementia This last category forms the most numerous group of incompetent patients It is estimated that roughly 10 of all individuals over the age of 65...

... obliged before God to use it particularly in defence of those who have no voice 5 the poor elderly or confused those with head injuries dementia or strokes those suffering from chronic or psychiatric illness the terminally ill children unborn children and human embryos We are all responsible Most of us...

... the geriatrician will therefore see more and hopefully know more about these conditions Examples would be stroke disease Parkinson s disease temporal arteritis polymyalgia rheumatica dementia etc The presentation of many diseases however is often different in the biologically old compared with the way they present in the young The patient...

... duty to die Guardian 2008 28 September Dr Death Philip Nitschke suicide workshop causes angry reaction in Bournemouth Daily Telegraph 2008 8 October Baroness Warnock Dementia sufferers may have a duty to die Daily Telegraph 2008 19 September Living with dignity Observer 2002 10 November Why Matt Hampson chose to live...

... psychogeriatric ward of a Dutch general teaching hospital showed that at the end of six weeks DNR orders were predictable by the four variables of dementia use of antidepressants age and pre-arrest morbidity index in that order 11 The association of the use of antidepressants with the presence of a written...

... be dependent on others and have multiple medical conditions either due to pre-existing conditions from childhood or newer but just as debilitating as long-term conditions dementia stroke heart disease diabetes renal disease The prevalence of frailty increases with age 30 per cent of those aged over 85 years will be frail...

... As the seal makes a cooing reply Maureen chuckles with delight The seal is Paro 2 a therapeutic robot designed to help people some with dementia and other cognitive health issues who cannot look after a pet Paro is being used in a handful of NHS trusts such as the Sussex...

... with rights It is this view that lies behind the idea that we can do things to embryos fetuses and people with brain damage or dementia that we would not contemplate doing to healthy children or adults If gender is simply an arbitrary social construct rather than the cultural expression of...