How couples with dementia experience healthcare, lifestyle, and everyday decision-making
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Autonomy and couples’ joint decision-making in healthcare
BACKGROUND Respect for autonomy is a key principle in bioethics. However, respecting autonomy in practice is complex because most people define themselves and make decisions influenced by a complex network of social relationships. The extent to which individual autonomy operates for each partner within the context of decision-making within marital or similar relationships is largely unexplored....
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عنوان ژورنال: International Psychogeriatrics
سال: 2018
ISSN: 1041-6102,1741-203X
DOI: 10.1017/s1041610218000741