6. Helping the helper
2018 ◽
pp. 64-77
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‘Helping the helper’ shows how ethics support can be introduced to shape ethical understanding and good healthcare practice using an example from a care home setting where everyday care is provided to people with dementia. This case is one example of an ethical issue that arises frequently in the care of people with dementia: how to balance the person’s previous preferences and values with their current interests, when these conflict. This discussion raises some difficult philosophical questions about how a person’s identity should be understood when that person is cognitively impaired. Two concepts of personal identity are discussed: the psychological continuity account and the situated-embodied-agent account.
2015 ◽
Vol 19
(2)
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pp. 69-76
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2012 ◽
Vol 24
(10)
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pp. 1581-1591
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