As healthcare systems across Europe deal with an increasing prevalence of cognitive impairment, family doctors are emerging as key players in assessing and supporting patients' decision-making ...

The American Geriatrics Society (AGS) Ethics Committee updated its 2017 statement, “Making Medical Treatment Decisions for Unbefriended Older Adults,” refreshing the language and citing newer clinical ...

The average adult makes approximately 35,000 decisions daily, from the mundane selection of breakfast cereals to consequential professional judgments. Yet this constant choosing exacts a toll that ...

These words, from Nelson Mandela, speak volumes about the difficulties we face in the often-fraught process of decision-making. A decision is essentially a choice. Whether that choice involves major, ...

The Mental Capacity Act 2005 protects people who may not be able to make their own decisions. But what about those who can? Photo: fotolia/ baon Perhaps the most difficult issue in adult social care, ...

Smart leaders with vast data still make bad decisions. But others, under similar pressure, make game-changing ones. In 1982, Johnson & Johnson swiftly recalled 31 million bottles of Tylenol after ...

Advance decisions to refuse treatment may be made by individuals who anticipate that at some point in the future they may lack the mental capacity to make a decision. These decisions are legally ...

An enduring societal challenge the world over is a “perspective deficit” in collective decision-making. Whether within a single business, at the local community level, or the international level, some ...