Dr Helen Chapple joins Ethics Talk to discuss the harms of poor end-of-life care and how to avoid them.

The European Dementia Village is a pioneering health care site, and a US-based model is the Dementia Friendly City Center, which integrates service delivery into adaptive reuse and urban revitalization.

Safety-net hospitals care for patients who are incarcerated and are key environments in which surgical trainees learn to wield their professional autonomy.

For some patients whose survival is extended by disease-modifying interventions, little guidance about clinical and ethical complexities exist.

A surgeon’s duty is to identify goals of care, including those about quality of life, from a patient’s perspective and to consider how to achieve them.

Differentiating between best palliative care options and the curative and palliative potential of surgery is key to developing dual intentional clarity.

Palliative psychiatry can facilitate compassionate resolution of ethical conflicts in end-of-life care decision making with persons with substance use disorders.  

This article examines conceptual limitations of extant accounts of palliative psychiatry, with a focus on obligations to distinguish among and clearly formulate goals of care. 

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.