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Illness awareness and decision-making capacity in palliative care. Dementia prevalence could be of 1000000 patients in Italy in 2025. Respecting the autonomy of patients is universally considered a basic principle of ethics.
Illness awareness and decision-making capacity in palliative care. Dementia prevalence could be of 1000000 patients in Italy in 2025. Respecting the autonomy of patients is universally considered a basic principle of ethics.
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Illness awareness and decision-making capacity in palliative care. Dementia prevalence could be of 1000000 patients in Italy in 2025. Respecting the autonomy of patients is universally considered a basic principle of ethics.
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Presenting author DEMENTIA: ILLNESS AWARENESS AND DECISON-MAKING CAPACITY IN
PALLIATIVE CARE Daniela Tarquini Email: Author: Daniela Tarquini dtarquini@tele2.it The problem of dementias is achieving more and more importance in Western Countries, due to Phone the increasing number of patient affected, age being the principal risk factor. It has been calculated that the prevalence could be of 1000000 patients in Italy, in 2025. We know that physicians are required by law and medical ethics to obtain the informed content Mobile phone before initiating any kind of treatment or taking any decision about life of patients. The premise of obtaining a valid informed consent is giving appropriate information to a competent patient. With the progression of dementia all individual eventually lose their decison-making capacity, but this disease has different stages and in the mild one, as in a number of patients in the Please underline the most moderate one, we can still have decision-making capacities preserved, often related to the appropriate category for your difficulty of the task. The instruments that can help to assess the patient’s competence are the abstract neuropsychological bacteries, the simplest of which is MMSE, and the MacArtur Competence Assessment tools for treatment, a structured interview. Both must be integrated by other data • Pain and other symptoms coming from the clinical assessment. Respecting the autonomy of patients is universally • Palliative care for cancer patients considered a basic principle of ethics, thus our main goal should be to encourage the patient • Palliative care for non cancer makes his/her own decison about treatment, particurarly about the end of life . Often demented patients patients, even aware of their illness, are not given a clear diagnosis by physicians. We take for • Paediatric palliative care granted that patients do not want to know. Communication of the diagnosis is the first step that enables the patient to make advance directives, according to medical deontological code, or to • Palliative care for the elderly designate what we call in italian “amministratore di sostegno” who could have his will • The actors of palliative care respected. • Latest on drugs
• Pain
• Illness and suffering through
media • Marginalisation and social stigma at the end of life • Palliative care advocacy projects
• Prognosis and diagnosis
communication in different cultures • Communication between doctor- patient and patient- equipe • Religions and cultures versus suffering, death and bereavement • Public institution in the world: Session: Neurology in palliative care palliative care policies and law Chair: Dott. Ignazio R. Causarano
• Palliative care: from villages to
metropolies • Space, light and gardens for the terminally ill patient • End-of-life ethics • Complementary therapies • Education, training and research • Fund-raising and no-profit • Bereavement support • Volunteering in palliative care • Rehabilitation in palliative care • Palliative care quality indicators • Neurology in palliative care