title: [Health care surrogate and Alzheimer's disease].
abstract: Many healthcare professionals prejudge the capacity of a patient suffering from Alzheimer's disease to designate a health care surrogate. Consequently they deprive themselves of a person with whom they can discuss the patient's care while also depriving the patient of support and assistance.While the task of the health care surrogate is made more difficult as a result of cognitive disorders, their role can only be beneficial in a balanced relationship.
authors.affiliation: Laboratoire d'éthique médicale, Université Paris V-René Descartes et unité de court séjour gériatrique, hôpitaux universitaires Paris Ile-de-France Ouest, AP-HP, Boulogne-Billancourt, France. sophie.moulias@apr.aphp.fr
authors.forename: Sophie
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Moulias
authors.forename: Wassila
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Moussous
authors.forename: Brice
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Colombier
authors.forename: Tristan
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Cudennec
authors.forename: Laurent
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Teillet
mesh_terms: D000544:Alzheimer Disease; D006801:Humans; D016743:Mental Competency; D019727:Proxy