Background and objectives The last version of the EFNS dementia guidelines is from 2007.
In 2010, the revised guidelines for Alzheimer's disease (AD) were published. The current …

Background Involving adults lacking capacity (ALC) in research on end of life care (EoLC) or
serious illness is important, but often omitted. We aimed to develop evidence-based …

Background Brain tumor patients are at high risk of impaired medical decision-making
capacity (MDC), which can be ethically challenging because it limits their ability to give …

Background: the worldwide number of dementia cases is increasing, and this is a trend that
is expected to continue as a growing proportion of the population ages. However …

Background Over the last years, the number of clinical trials carried out in low-income
countries with poor medical infrastructure and limited access to health care has increased. In …

Although critically ill patients represent a vulnerable group of individuals, guidelines in
research ethics assert that ethically acceptable research may proceed with such vulnerable …

Objective: To evaluate whether a short training focused on improving dementia care
practices of the hospital staff was able to counteract functional loss and to decrease negative …

Background When including participants with dementia in research, various ethical issues
arise. At present, there are only a few existing dementia-specific research guidelines …

Background Despite the aging of numerous societies and future health care challenges,
clinical research in the elderly is underrepresented. The aim of this review was to analyze …

Context Delirium occurs commonly in settings of palliative care (PC), in which patient
vulnerability in the unique context of end-of-life care and delirium-associated impairment of …