Abstract The use of Intelligent Assistive Technology (IAT) in dementia care opens the
prospects of reducing the global burden of dementia and enabling novel opportunities to …

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The idea of person-centred health systems is widely advocated in political and policy
declarations to better address health system challenges. A person-centred approach is …

Health care is transitioning from genetics to genomics, in which single-gene testing for
diagnosis is being replaced by multi-gene panels, genome-wide sequencing, and other …

This article challenges a key tacit assumption underpinning legal and ethical instruments in
health care, namely, that people are ideally bounded, independent, and often also …

Psychologists, economists, historians, computer scientists, sociologists, philosophers, and
legal scholars explore the conscious choice not to seek information. The history of …

This article investigates a high-profile and ongoing dilemma for healthcare professionals
(HCPs), namely whether the existence of a (legal) duty of care to genetic relatives of a …

Background: Participants in health research studies typically express interest in receiving
the results from the studies in which they participate. However, participants' preferences and …

Direct-to-consumer genetic testing (DTC-GT) companies have proliferated and expanded in
recent years. Using biospecimens directly submitted by consumers, these companies …

Health research participants want the results of the studies in which they participate but do
not typically receive them. Researchers generally express support for sharing results with …