AMA Journal of Ethics^®

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

Dr Uma Suryadevara joins Ethics Talk to discuss her article, coauthored with Drs Alex Rollo, Jeena Kar, and Mary Camp: “Should Antipsychotics’ Risks Be Accepted by Clinicians on Behalf of Patients to Achieve Benefits of Mitigating Older Adults’ Behavioral Symptoms in Short-Staffed Units?” 

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

There is evidence of the benefits of music for health and wellness, but current US clinical practice does not yet commonly incorporate arts-based interventions.

This article considers ethical questions raised during development of an online art exhibit for and with people with dementia and their care partners.

Dr Vaishali Phatak joins Ethics Talk to discuss her article, coauthored with Dr Mary Perkinson and Meghan K. Ramirez: “Leveraging Cross-Campus Expertise to Contribute to Dementia Care Through Music.”

There’s similarity between processes used by an artist to see the entirety of a scene and those used by a clinician to assess a patient.

Long-term care facilities should assess residents for capacity to consent to sexual activity and be prepared to accommodate sexual intimacy.

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

Research is needed on surrogates’ susceptibility to believing that clinical trials provide individual therapeutic benefit.