title: Ethical challenges when patients have dementia.
abstract: Dementia is among the most terrible diseases humans can have. Of all of the things that careproviders could do to enhance the quality of life that persons with dementia have, which ones should they do?
authors.affiliation: Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, Maryland, USA.
authors.forename: Edmund G
authors.initials: EG
authors.lastname: Howe
mesh_terms: D016223:Advance Directives; D000374:Aggression; D000544:Alzheimer Disease / Q000451:nursing* / Q000523:psychology; D014150:Antipsychotic Agents / Q000008:administration & dosage; D017028:Caregivers / Q000941:ethics* / Q000523:psychology / Q000592:standards*; D003075:Coitus; D008192:Deception; D003704:Dementia / Q000451:nursing; D018450:Disease Progression; D004993:Ethics, Nursing; D006801:Humans; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D028681:Moral Obligations; D011597:Psychomotor Performance; D011788:Quality of Life; D011902:Rape / Q000517:prevention & control
chemical_list: D014150:Antipsychotic Agents