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Tag Archives: dementia and legal capacity

Will you need a dementia specific advance directive?

Are you one of the few and one of the brave who is willing to talk openly about dementia – specifically what kind of...

Capacity, Incapacity and Vulnerability

This is the last post (for now at least) on the topic of capacity and incapacity. In my field of practice, I must be...

The Continuing Adventures of the Psychopomp: What is the Vocation of a Psychopomp?

This is the first of a series of posts about our death-denying and death-phobic culture and the “usefulness” of a psychopomp as a means...

Dementia and Memory: Out of Time, Out of Mind II

This second part of the post focuses a bit more on the qualitative aspect of memory – memory as meaningful life activity, not just...

Dementia, Capacity and Old Age: part I

In our death-denying and youth-glorifying culture, how does dementia figure as a disease? Is there a cause? Is there a cure?  What pills can...

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