Responsibility and age‐related dementia.
Abstract: This article identifies the assumption of responsibility as a basic need of human beings and applies the concept specifically to older people with dementia or Alzheimer's disease. It suggests a two‐level concept of responsibility, based on the approach of discourse ethicist Karl‐Otto Apel,...
| Published in: | Bioethics Vol. 32; no. 4; pp. 240 - 251 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
May2018
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