Autonomy, authenticity, or best interest: Everyday decision-making and persons with dementia
- 1 January 2001
- journal article
- Published by Springer Nature in Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy
- Vol. 4 (2) , 153-159
- https://doi.org/10.1023/a:1011402102030
Abstract
The question of when we have justification for overriding ordinary, everyday decisions of persons with dementia is considered. It is argued that no single criterion for competent decision-making is...Keywords
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