Dementia and Aging
Subtitle: Ethics, Values, and Policy Choices
Contributors: Robert H. Binstock (Editor); Stephen G. Post (Editor); Peter J. Whitehouse (Editor)
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: September 1, 1992
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9780801845451
Subjects: Geriatric medicine; Medical ethics; Mental health services; Senile dementia; Health/Fitness; Ethics; United States; Psychology; Patients; Mental Illness; Gerontology; Medical / Ethics; Care; Treatment; Government policy; Moral and ethical aspects
First sentence: The attention paid to dementia, especially to Alzheimer's disease, its most common cause, has increased remarkably in the United States over the past fifteen years.