Truth Telling and Communication
When facing serious health struggles, many health care professionals and family members find it difficult to discuss their diagnosis and prognosis with them. After all, it’s hard to reveal bad…
Living Facilities and Nursing Homes
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…
Dementia
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…
Frailness and Chronic Illness
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…
