Terminating Life‐Sustaining Treatment of the Demented

Hastings Center Report 25 (6):25-31 (1995)
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Abstract

A growing elderly population, dwindling health care resources, and intense and widespread fear of dementia have forced an uncomfortable question: should patients with dementia be slated as off‐limits for life‐sustaining treatment?

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