AMA Journal of Ethics^®

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

This artwork represents—via a puzzle—physical and emotional experiences of brain deterioration.

Patients with dementia need social supports and opportunities and acceptance of their disability in order to feel hopeful despite their functional decline.

Authentic partnerships with people with dementia motivate full social participation and resist fatalism around experiences of illness.

Viewing dementia as a distinct disease promotes funding for research but may stigmatize those who have dementia and lead to disinvestment in caregiving.

Arts participation can counterbalance the social stigma of Alzheimer’s disease by fostering the autonomy and creativity of those with the diagnosis.

Pregnant women at high risk for heritable diseases need support and nondirective genetic counseling.

As a matter of medical ethics, physicians must address the health care needs of and be advocates for family caregivers of their patients with dementia.

Neuromodulation has ethical implications for self-identity and public communication of scientific findings.

The Bioethics Commission’s recommendations to include research participants with impaired consent capacity provide an ethical foundation for neuroscience.