New ways of sharing information are changing medical practice, doctor-patient relationships, public health, and health research. Bioethicists have a role to play in developing standards of conduct for health professionals who use social media and e-health platforms and in the design of the systems themselves.
Seven states have legalized physician-assisted death (PAD) for competent, terminally ill individuals; these criteria exclude persons with dementia (PWD). However, there is ethical and policy discussion around expanding access to PAD to people with Alzheimer disease (AD). 1,2 Here, we present attitudes toward PAD of cognitively normal individuals enrolled in a clinical trial that required them to learn whether they have elevated amyloid-β, a biomarker that increases risk for cognitive decline owing to AD.
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