by External Article | Jan 2, 2020 | Baby Boom Generation, Care Work Library, Death & Dying, Long Distance Caregiving |
My 92-year-old father fell one Saturday night a few months ago. My mother could not pick him up. Her brother was not answering his cellphone, so she called 911. An ambulance crew brought him to the hospital. I took the first flight from Washington, D.C., and arrived... 
by External Article | Apr 7, 2016 | Care Work Library, Caring for a Client, Caring for a Neighbor, Death & Dying, Finding Meaning, Grief |
Janet Adkins, a fifty-four-year-old English teacher, decided to make herself gone before the disease got the chance. Diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer’s disease, she was Dr. Jack Kevorkian’s first client. A minister friend asked me recently about my grandfather. I... 
by External Article | May 13, 2014 | Baby Boom Generation, Care Work Library, Caring for a Parent, Caring for a Relative, Death & Dying, Silent generation |
[O]ver a roughly 25-year span, my father, Phillip I. Lerner, acted as the primary doctor for his relatives several times. All of the physicians agreed that the prognosis was grim, but that was not enough for my father. Pearl’s worst fear, which she had often stated,... 
by External Article | Mar 1, 2011 | Care Work Library, Long Term Caregiving, Planning |
In this paper, we offer a new account of disability. According to our account, some state of a person’s biology or psychology is a disability if that state makes it more likely that a person’s life will get worse, in terms of his or her own wellbeing, in a... by External Article | Feb 17, 2011 | Care Work Library, Caring for a Child |
When is it permissible to allow a newborn infant to die on the basis of their future quality of life? The prevailing official view is that treatment may be withdrawn only if the burdens in an infant’s future life outweigh the benefits. In this paper I outline... by External Article | Feb 1, 2009 | 24/7 Caregiving, Care Work Library, Death & Dying |
Neuroimaging studies of brain-damaged patients diagnosed as in the vegetative state suggest that the patients might be conscious. This might seem to raise no new ethical questions given that in related disputes both sides agree that evidence for consciousness gives... 
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