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Ethical Issues
This section lists specific articles that deal with the bias that surrounds Alzheimer's Disease, a bias so pervasive and so accepted into the language it isn't even recognized as bias. That bias goes largely unchallenged, it too often interferes with how services are provided for our people and it undermines the resolve of caregivers. Most of all, and more importantly, it degrades the person who is actually doing the dying from this disease. It is time to separate the realities of this disease from the fear that prompts the jargon attached to it, and it is time to consider the human being that still exists in spite of what this disease does to them. The question is: How can our professional helpers give an unbiased accepting appraisal of the options available to caregivers if they haven't examined their own hang ups about this disease.
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