SHOULD PEOPLE WITH DEMENTIA BE COMPULSORY TO GO TO RESIDENTIAL CARE HOME OR STAY IN THEIR HOMES

SHOULD PEOPLE WITH DEMENTIA BE COMPULSORY TO GO TO RESIDENTIAL CARE HOME OR STAY IN THEIR HOMES

Ethics in Health Care: Dementia The essay shall talk about the ethic and legal issues involved in sending patients to healthcare centers while they are suffering from dementia.

The essay shall look at the perspective from the Public Health Ethics point of view and will try to bring the ethical and legal theory forwards to club it with the pros and cons of dementia patients, and then shall prepare an argument, which will take a side depending upon the research and findings of the author.

The author will then conclude his theory based on ethics and legality of the topic. In order to move forwards with the argument, let us first understand the meaning and definition of Dementia.

The definition is as follows: “Dementia is a term used to describe various symptoms of cognitive decline such as forgetfulness, but is not a clinical diagnosis itself until an underlying disease or disorder has been identified.”(Beauchamp T.L and Childress, 2001) Dementia in itself is not a disease, but a doorway to various cognitive related diseases, the most popular of them being Alzheimer’s disease.

Dementia patients tend to lose their memory and are not able to remember key events, which have occurred in life. The patients who fall prey to dementia suffer from one or the other forms of memory loss related diseases. Dementia is impairment to memory, communication and thinking. Old age is one of the key significant factors to falling prey to this disease. The likelihood of Dementia increases with age. ……………………….