When someone is facing serious health challenges, healthcare professionals and family members often struggle to discuss their diagnosis and prognosis. Sharing difficult news, especially about mortality, is never easy. Some…
In the 12th century, two great Jewish scholars debated the responsibility for taking care of elderly parents. Maimonides, the famous legalist and physician, asserted that if a child could no…
How Judaism Views Patients with Dementia What is Dementia? Dementia describes a group of symptoms associated with a decline in memory, reasoning or other thinking skills. It is caused by…
When deciding about new medical intervention in very ill patients, it is helpful to distinguish between two different types of cases: “End-of-life” illness: Patients who have a definite, incurable disease…
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