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Book Detail
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Winter's End:
Dementia and Dying Well
Cohen, Lewis
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Category: Palliative Care Publisher: Oxford University Press Publication Date: 05/2024 Status: Not Yet Published Imprint: Oxford University Press Affiliation: Tufts University School of Medicine and University of Massachusetts Chan School of Medicine Audience: Professional and scholarly Retail Price: 39.95 (Tentative Price May Change)
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Synopsis:
Arguably among the worst of all medical afflictions, the dementias slowly destroy one's personality, take a tremendous emotional, physical, and financial toll on patients and families, and are irreversible and inexorably fatal. Winter's End: Dementia and Its Life-Shortening Options is constructed around a lengthy and detailed nonfiction account that is layered with the voices of approximately 100 palliative medicine practitioners, legal scholars, bioethicists, social workers, nurses, neurologists, psychiatrists, and other authorities from North America and Europe.
Winter's End is intended to catalyze conversations between clinicians, people affected by dementias, and the general public. It is a spellbinding and provocative book about a taboo subject that is increasingly germane to all aging societies that value patient autonomy.
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