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Planning For Alzheimer's Disease With Mental Health Advance Directives, Lisa Ellen Brodoff
Planning For Alzheimer's Disease With Mental Health Advance Directives, Lisa Ellen Brodoff
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Mental Health Advance Directives (MHAD) have long been used for life planning in the context of debilitating mental conditions such as dementia and schizophrenia. As early detection and diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease has become increasingly more possible, Professor Brodoff argues in this Article that MHADs can be an extremely effective tool for planning for a future with Alzheimer's disease. Professor Brodoff suggests that all attorneys who assist clients with estate planning create a MHAD, particularly those clients who have been diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease and those with the disease in their families. The MHAD is designed to aid caregivers and …
Physician-Assisted Suicide And Dementia: The Impossibility Of A Workable Regulatory Regime, John B. Mitchell
Physician-Assisted Suicide And Dementia: The Impossibility Of A Workable Regulatory Regime, John B. Mitchell
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Currently, four-and-a-half million Americans are afflicted with Alzheimer’s Disease, accounting for roughly half the cases of adult dementia, and fourteen million cases are projected by mid-century. With the coalescence of the baby boomers, managed health care, and increasingly scarce health care resources, our society must brace to face a social and legal policy challenge of enormous importance and complexity. In this circumstance, the inevitable call for access to physician-assisted suicide, likely triggered through some form of living will, will need to be considered within a context far different than the current focus of the assisted-suicide debate on terminal illness. Asserting …