Alzheimer's disease and euthanasia

Alvargonzález, David

doi:10.1016/j.jaging.2012.04.001

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“…The level of depression in hospitalised lung cancer patients increases as patients’ clinical stage advances and their length of the hospital stay is prolonged (Al‐Zahrani, Bashihab, Ahmed, Alkhodair, & Al‐Khateeb, ; Bernabeu‐Mora et al, ). Additionally, depression in families of patients increases their caregiving burden, negatively affects quality of care and causes additional physical illness in family caregivers that generate secondary medical expenses (Alvargonzález, ; Harding et al, ). This suggests that it is necessary to systematically establish social support for family caregiver burden considering the influencing factors found in the present study and create an environment that can simultaneously manage patients and their family caregivers.…”

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“…Therefore, families of lung cancer patients should be educated about major physical symptoms and management methods such as respiratory distress symptoms, sputum drainage and appropriate posture of lung cancer patients (Joyce, Schwartz, & Huhmann, 2008); sufficient counselling should be provided for families to share patients' symptoms and experiences (Lobchuk et al, 2006). Additionally, depression in families of patients increases their caregiving burden, negatively affects quality of care and causes additional physical illness in family caregivers that generate secondary medical expenses (Alvargonzález, 2012;Harding et al, 2015). This suggests that it is necessary to systematically establish social support for family caregiver burden considering the influencing factors found in the present study and create an environment that can simultaneously manage patients and their family caregivers.…”

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Factors influencing caregiver burden in families of hospitalised patients with lung cancer

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박희옥

2019

Journal of Clinical Nursing

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Aims and objectives To investigate the factors influencing caregiver burden in families of hospitalised lung cancer patients. Background Even though cancer symptoms among hospitalised lung cancer patients are serious and negatively affect caregivers, few research regarding to the factors of caregiver burden in hospitalised lung cancer patient has been carried out. Design Cross‐sectional, descriptive and correlational study. Methods A convenience sample of hospitalised lung cancer patients (n = 107) was recruited from K University hospital in South Korea. Family depression, social support and caregiver burden as well as patients’ lung cancer symptoms were measured using peer‐reviewed and standard measurement tools. Descriptive statistics and parametric tests including stepwise regression were used to analyse the data. The STROBE guideline has been used to report this study. Results Caregiver burden among the families of hospitalised lung cancer patients was high; the regression model for caregiver burden among participants’ families was significant. Depression among families was found to be the most influential factor for caregiver burden, followed by patients’ lung cancer symptoms. Conclusions This study revealed that family caregivers’ depression and patients’ lung cancer symptoms were the most significant factors for families’ caregiver burden. Future research should be conducted to identify the causes of depression among families of hospitalised lung cancer patients and develop management programmes to address such causes. It is also necessary to investigate the causes of increased caregiver burden that differentiate families of lung cancer patients from other cancer patients and provide education to help such families understand such causes. Relevance to clinical practice Findings from this study show that family's depression and lung cancer symptoms were significant factors for caregivers’ burden. Hence, it is suggested for the healthcare providers to find for the best solution/strategies to reduce the caregiver's burden.

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Factors influencing caregiver burden in families of hospitalised patients with lung cancer

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2019

Journal of Clinical Nursing

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“…However, the emphasis on earlier diagnosis in dementia (Department of Health, 2009) has meant that people can have the capacity to make treatment decisions. Indeed, data released from the Netherlands highlight the steady increase in the number of people with mild dementia who have received euthanasia, from three people in 2006 to 21 in 2010 and 49 in 2011 (Regional Euthanasia Review Committees, 2007, 2011, 2012.…”

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Assisted dying in dementia: a systematic review of the international literature on the attitudes of health professionals, patients, carers and the public, and the factors associated with these

Tomlinson

Stott

2014

Int J Geriat Psychiatry

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“…In the most frequent, canonical situation, one biological human individual corresponds to one human person, but there are some exceptions to this case, such as parapagus conjoined twins, where two human persons are confined in a single human individual. In previous work, I have distinguished up to eight different cases of dissociation between the human individual and the human person [23]. Such a distinction proves useful when trying to understand the consequences of AD.…”

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Alzheimer?s Disease and the Conflict between Ethics, Morality and Politics

Alvargonzález¹

2012

J Alzheimers Dis

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My position is that the distinction between ethics, morality and politics lies in the supposition that human persons, as they go about their daily lives, are required to face certain purposes, each of a different nature. The first purpose is to preserve the integrity of each human subject, as both a biological individual and a human person. Gustavo Bueno relates such a perspective to ethical norms and virtues. Following Spinoza, "strength of character" stands as the fundamental ethical virtue (incidentally, the Greek root "ethos" means "character"); this is understood as "firmness" when applied to oneself and as "generosity" when applied to others [3]. Aiming to transform ill patients into healthy individuals and thereby contribute to restoring their firmness, the sound practice of medicine is an inherently ethical activity guided by the virtue of generosity. Unethical behaviors, on the contrary, threaten personal integrity and the biological individual, and include murder, mutilation, abuse, torture, defamation, injury and any other behavior geared toward undermining another person's strength. Equally unethical is any behavior which works against one's own self, such as drug abuse, careless eating and health habits and suicide. Basic assumptions dictate that biological and personal integrity must be respected and enhanced regardless of sex, age, religion, ethnicity, language, etc. With this in mind, ethical norms strive to be universal and distributive, since they are fully distributed in every human individual. Ethical norms may come into conflict with each other, as occurs when the prohibition against killing may be overridden in cases of self-defense. In such cases, the ethical rule to defend one's own

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Alzheimer's disease and euthanasia

Cited by 15 publications

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Factors influencing caregiver burden in families of hospitalised patients with lung cancer

Factors influencing caregiver burden in families of hospitalised patients with lung cancer

Assisted dying in dementia: a systematic review of the international literature on the attitudes of health professionals, patients, carers and the public, and the factors associated with these

Alzheimer?s Disease and the Conflict between Ethics, Morality and Politics

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