Tag Archives: dementia

The Need to Discuss Death-Hastening Methods

March 9, 2016 · by impact ethics · in Canadian Bioethics, Clinical Ethics, Death & Assisted Dying, Law & Policy

Stuart Chambers discusses an oversight in the Report by the Special Joint Committee on Physician-Assisted Dying.

Medical Assistance in Dying: A Patient-Centred Approach

February 26, 2016 · by impact ethics · in Canadian Bioethics, Death & Assisted Dying, Law & Policy, Mental Health

Jocelyn Downie reviews key points in the Report of the Special Joint Committee on Physician-Assisted Dying.

Margaret Lock Offers Dementia’s Realism Instead of Hope

January 31, 2016 · by impact ethics · in Health Research, Public Health, Science Funding

Cynthia Martin writes that unlike cancer’s new push to accelerate treatment (recently launched under the banner Cancer Moonshot2020), there is no Alzheimer’s MoonShot2020.

Disentangling Alzheimer’s, Dementia, and Aging

January 29, 2016 · by impact ethics · in Community, Health Research, Mental Health, Public Health · 2 Comments

Katie Aubrecht shares her thoughts on Alzheimer’s, dementia, and aging as these intersect with The Alzheimer Conundrum: Entanglements of Dementia and Aging.