ETHICAL-NORMATIVE CONCEPTUAL EVALUATIONS IN ASSISTING PEOPLE AFFECTED BY ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE

Advance patient directives are various forms of anticipatory medical directives made by competent individuals for the eventuality of future incompetence. They are therefore appropriate instruments for competent patients in the early stage of Alzheimer's disease to document their self-determined will in the advanced stages of dementia. Although there are many restraints, from a medical and psychological point of view, the patients must be informed about their disorder and prognosis at an inchoate level of disease, when the patient is still competitive for making self-determined decisions.