AMA Journal of Ethics^®

AI technology can be implemented to avoid the drawback of diminishing social connections. 

Individualistic approaches to the collective problem of climate change are ethically inadequate. 

Dr Vivek H. Murthy joins Ethics Talk to discuss loneliness as a public health threat and the connection between loneliness, public health responsiveness, and the health of our democracy.

Growing familiarity with health risks of loneliness and isolation highlight the importance of social connection in lived environments and communities.

Loneliness is an endemic experience of immigrants to the United States that could be mitigated by cultural brokerage practices in clinical settings. 

An aging prison population means more people who are incarcerated will experience dementia and related symptoms.

Dr Steven Starks joins Ethics Talk to discuss the shortage of geriatric psychiatrists and how cross-specialty training can prepare clinicians of all specialties to care for geriatric patients.

Geriatric psychiatry offers stable career prospects and opportunities to express humanitarian impulses by working closely with elders.

This commentary considers how to manage agitation in patients with dementia.

Ethics questions about care of patients with AD could influence clinicians’ judgment about whether and when to recommend aducanumab.