Editorial: Disability, Aging, and the Importance of Recognizing Social Supports in Medical Decision Making

By Kevin Mintz, PhD and David Magnus, PhD Note: The following editorial was recently published in the American Journal of Bioethics, Volume 21, Issue 11 (2021). The two target articles in this issue draw an important connection between disability bioethics and geriatric bioethics. Dominic JC Wilkinson (2021) makes a pragmatic case for using frailty as a factor in the allocation of scarce resources in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU), arguing that doing so avoids ableist and ageist objections. Meanwhile, Andrew Peterson, Jason Karlawish, and Emily Largent (2021) articulate a framework that places supported decision-making for adults with mild cognitive impairments squarely within the auspices of disability rights.…
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