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Ethical Issues: Perspective 1: Providing the Care for Individuals with Alzheimer’s Disease: Practice, Education, Policy, and Research

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Providing care for ourselves and our family, as well as our community and the world around us, is a ubiquitous part of life. The act of caring creates a field of human endeavor in which the potential emerges for both confluence and conflict between different values.

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Whitehouse, P.J., Whitehouse, P.J., Whitehouse, P.J. (2013). Ethical Issues: Perspective 1: Providing the Care for Individuals with Alzheimer’s Disease: Practice, Education, Policy, and Research. In: Zarit, S., Talley, R. (eds) Caregiving for Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Disorders. Caregiving: Research • Practice • Policy. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-5335-2_9

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