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Singapore Case Notes: In the Community, Who is Ethics Education For?
For previous posts on the Singapore Casebook project, a collaboration among the Centre for Biomedical Ethics at the National University of Singapore, The Hastings Center, and the Ethox Centre at...Read “Singapore Case Notes: In the Community, Who is Ethics Education For?”
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Administration Reveals Lack of CLASS
The demise of the CLASS (Community Living Assistance Services and Support) Act is the calamitous result of ideological warfare and political cowardice. It would have provided a modest benefit –...Bioethics Forum Essay
Lincoln’s Promise: Congress, Veterans, and Traumatic Brain Injury
Perhaps we were naïve. Our plan was relatively simple: we would chart the legislative evolution of programs for veterans with traumatic brain injuries (TBI) to identify policy gaps for this...Read “Lincoln’s Promise: Congress, Veterans, and Traumatic Brain Injury”
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Sweet Grapes at the End of Life
Ms. Rita, whom I met as a volunteer at a local nursing home, was the most ardent lover of grapes I have ever known. She was confined to a wheelchair...Bioethics Forum Essay
The Lady Writer and the Valkyrie: Magda Szabo’s Novel The Door
An old woman desperately needs medical attention. Yet she fiercely refuses every offer of help from friends, neighbors, and the local doctor. No one will get past her door, she...Read “The Lady Writer and the Valkyrie: Magda Szabo’s Novel The Door”
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Should We Get Ready for Prime Time?
For the first few years after my husband Howard died, I talked to him often. These were not ghostly, paranormal encounters; I was just thinking out loud about my life...Hastings Center News
What Does It Mean to be a Good Citizen in an Aging Society?
That question was the focus of “Long Term Care in New York City, circa 2030,” a panel discussion hosted by the New York City Bar Association on May 3 that included...Read “What Does It Mean to be a Good Citizen in an Aging Society?”
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What Makes a Good Life Late in Life? Nobel Prize Winner and Leading Bioethicist Offer Insights
Eric Kandel, winner of the 2000 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine who has done groundbreaking work on the molecular mechanisms of memory, spoke at The Hastings Center on May...Bioethics Forum Essay
Envisioning Civic Palliative Care
Dying cannot be understood properly, or responded to well, without recourse to the connections between the dying experience and the larger social structures that make up a social and civic...Hastings Center News
Hastings Scholar Examines the Financial Burden of Long-Term Care
Nearly 11 million Americans use long-term care for help with daily tasks such as bathing and preparing meals, and yet few have private long-term care insurance. Thus, most of the...Read “Hastings Scholar Examines the Financial Burden of Long-Term Care”
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Ethical Perspectives on Advance Directives for Dementia
Four articles in the Hastings Center Report make an array of claims about whether advance directives should or should not be used to instruct caregivers to withhold oral feeding of...Read “Ethical Perspectives on Advance Directives for Dementia”
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Old Jews
Old Jews are why I am who I am. Not only the old Jews you’d expect–my grandparents and great-grandparents, who came here because, as I learned for a family history...Hastings Center News
Dementia and the Ethics of Choosing When to Die
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On Being a Foster Parent During Covid
I knew that being a foster parent would be demanding, but I was unprepared for the extent of the challenges, which were exacerbated by the pandemic.Bioethics Forum Essay
Humanity on the Brink: Narratives of Caregiving and Dementia
Newly published first-person stories of the challenges, struggles, and joys of providing care for family members or another close person with Alzheimer's disease and other types of dementia "depict humanity on the brink."Read “Humanity on the Brink: Narratives of Caregiving and Dementia”
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TRANSCRIPT – Breakthrough or Breakdown: Should the FDA Have Approved the New Alzheimer’s Drug?
[Transcript created by voice recognition] Danielle Pacia, The Hastings Center Hello and welcome to Breakthrough or Breakdown. Should the FDA have approved the new Alzheimer’s drug, a Hastings Center conversation?...Bioethics Forum Essay
I Was Never “Just” a Visitor
Caregivers are not visitors. Hospital policies that restrict visits from family caregivers can harm patients.Hastings Center News
Love and Loss with Amy Bloom
Bestselling author Amy Bloom‘s world was altered forever when an MRI indicated that her husband Brian had Alzheimer’s disease. Together, led by Brian, Brian and Amy made the decision to travel to Switzerland to access an assisted dying process...Bioethics Forum Essay
Aphasia, Communication, and Caregiving
What “recovery” really means in aphasia is left unsaid in this novel.Bioethics Forum Essay
After the Election, Our Aging Society Will Still Need Care Policy
After the election, the care needs of our aging society will continue to be met by families showing up, day after day. Whether or not our public officials decide to imagine otherwise and commit themselves to policy changes that could prove highly popular, bioethics needs to keep its eyes on the caregivers.Read “After the Election, Our Aging Society Will Still Need Care Policy”
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Meeting the Needs of Aging Patients with Chronic Mental and Medical Illnesses
My brother-in-law Mark died a couple of weeks ago. He had struggled with schizophrenia for over 45 years, so at age 64 1/2, he had exceeded the average life expectancy...Read “Meeting the Needs of Aging Patients with Chronic Mental and Medical Illnesses”
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Doing Right by Family Caregivers During Discharge Planning
As family caregivers who are everywhere yet overlooked in aging societies worldwide, we ponder and discuss this question as bioethicists: “Who cast me in this role?”Read “Doing Right by Family Caregivers During Discharge Planning”
