Advance directives in German memory clinics
Garmann, D.; Abele, C.; Baisch, S.; Karneboge, J.; Lindl, G.; Florack, J.; Theile-Schürholz, A.; Haberstroh, J. · Zeitschrift für Gerontologie und Geriatrie · 2025 · Heft 6 · S. 1 bis 7
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IntroductionThe United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UN-CRPD) is a human rights treaty that grants persons with disabilities, such as people with dementia (PwD), the freedom to make their own choices (Article 3(1)) [17]. State authorities are obliged to support their ability to make legally valid decisions. This encompasses the right to make decisions regarding a particular medical treatment and to give voluntary, prior and informed consent.As dementia progresses, PwD can lose their capacity to provide informed consent to complex medical treatment. Despite such loss of capacity,…
