Publication: ‘I am your son, mother’: severe dementia and duties to visit parents who can’t recognise you
‘I am your son, mother’: severe dementia and duties to visit parents who can’t recognise you
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de Vries, B. (2020). ‘I am your son, mother’: severe dementia and duties to visit parents who can’t recognise you. Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy, 23(1), 17–24. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11019-019-09931-5
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It is commonly assumed that many, if not most, adult children have moral duties to visit their parents when they can do so at reasonable cost. However, whether such duties persist when the parents lose the ability to recognise their children, usually due to dementia, is more controversial. Over 40% of respondents in a public survey from the British Alzheimer’s Society said that it was “pointless” to keep up contact at this stage. Insofar as one cannot be morally required to do pointless things, this would suggest that children are rel
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- de Vries, Bouke
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de Vries, B. (2020). ‘I am your son, mother’: severe dementia and duties to visit parents who can’t recognise you. Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy, 23(1), 17–24. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11019-019-09931-5
