Bioethical problems of rendering medical aid to patients with dementia
https://doi.org/10.25789/YMJ.2019.66.29
Abstract
Currently, there is a steady increase in the number of elderly patients with cognitive impairment in need of specialized and high-tech medical care worldwide. We aim to outline the main bioethical problems of scientific research and medical care for patients with dementia in the Department of neurodegenerative diseases of the hospital of the Yakut scientific center of complex medical problems.
Supporting agencies: Education and Science of Russian Federation #6.1766.2017 project M. K. Ammosov NEFU: "Genetic features of the population of Yakutia: the structure of the gene pool, adaptation to cold, psychogenetic characteristics, the prevalence of some hereditary and infectious diseases», FASO (BRK:0556-2017- 0003) and RFBR (18-013-00738_A , 18- 015-00212_A).
About the Authors
S. K. Kononova
Yakut Scientific Center of Complex Medical Problems
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Kononova Sardana Kononova - senior researcher of the laboratory of molecular genetics
Yakutsk
T. K. Davydova
Yakut Scientific Center of Complex Medical Problems
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Davydova Tatyana Kimovna - PhDs in Medicine., head of the laboratory of neurodegenerative diseases
Yakutsk
O. G. Sidorova
Yakut Scientific Center of Complex Medical Problems
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Sidorova Oksana Gavrilina - researcher of the laboratory of hereditary pathology
Yakutsk
M. A. Varlamova
Yakut Scientific Center of Complex Medical Problems
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Varlamova Marina A. – junior researcher of the laboratory of hereditary pathology
Yakutsk
A. G. Egorova
Yakut Scientific Center of Complex Medical Problems
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Egorova Aitalina Grigorevna - PhDs in Medicine, head of department epidemiology of chronic and noninfectious diseases
Yakutsk
A. N. Romanova
Yakut Scientific Center of Complex Medical Problems
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Romanova Anna Nikolaevna, MD, the director
Yakutsk
S. A. Fedorova
M.K. Ammosov North-Eastern Federal University
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Fedorova Sardana Arkadyevna- doctor of biological sciences, head of the laboratory of molecular biology
Yakutsk
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Kononova S.K., Davydova T.K., Sidorova O.G., Varlamova M.A., Egorova A.G., Romanova A.N., Fedorova S.A. Bioethical problems of rendering medical aid to patients with dementia. Yakut Medical Journal. 2019;(2):97-99. https://doi.org/10.25789/YMJ.2019.66.29
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