Dementia and aging : ethics, values, and policy choices / edited by Robert H. Binstock, Stephen G. Post, Peter J. Whitehouse.

Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, [1992], ©1992.

xviii, 184 pages ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index

Challenges of dementia / Robert H. Binstock, Stephen G. Post and Peter J. Whitehouse -- Dementia: the medical perspective / Peter J. Whitehouse -- Experience of being demented / Joseph M. Foley -- Seeing and knowing dementia / David H. Smith -- Human dignity, dementia, and the moral basis of caregiving / Richard J. Martin and Stephen G. Post -- Autonomy revisited: the limits of anticipatory choices / Rebecca S. Dresser -- Critical view of ethical dilemmas in dementia / Harry R. Moody -- Mercy killing of elderly people with dementia: a counterproposal / David C. Thomasma -- Euthanasia in Alzheimer's disease? / Margaret P. Battin -- Dementia and appropriate care: allocating scarce resources / Daniel Callahan -- Politics of developing appropriate care for dementia / Robert H. Binstock and Thomas H. Murray -- Alzheimer's disease: current policy initiatives / Gene D. Cohen.