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Ethical and legal issues in the care of people with dementia

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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 February 2002

RG Jones
RG Jones
Affiliation:
University Hospital Nottingham, Nottingham, UK.
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Extract

This paper addresses some ethical and legal issues which arise in the UK in the care of people with dementia, focusing on the law in England and Wales – updating and revising the 1997 and earlier version. The ‘end of medical ethics’ continues to be debated, with an attendant fear of doctors’ responsibility and authority being fatally eroded by administrators and cost controllers, concerned only with budgets and ‘bureaucratic parsimony’.

Type
Psychiatry in old age
Information
Reviews in Clinical Gerontology , Volume 11 , Issue 3 , August 2001 , pp. 245 - 268
Copyright
© 2001 Cambridge University Press

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