Solving Alzheimer's: Living and Dying with Alzheimer's
The Documentary Podcast
BBC
4.3 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 29 January 2019
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
In the Netherlands, people with dementia can legally chose euthanasia but the debate is going back and forth there. When can dementia patients consent to euthanasia? The answer it turns out - is ethically very complicated and a Dutch doctor is now being prosecuted for performing euthanasia on a patient with advanced Alzheimer’s. In South Korea and the UK we hear from some of the most promising initiatives; and how a dementia friendly society is possible, with action not just from governments and NGOs but crucially from all of us.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the BBC World Service. I'm Andrew Bomford and this is the final episode in our series |
| 0:05.9 | Solving Alzheimer's, exploring how the most challenging disease in the world requires action |
| 0:11.9 | by governments, scientists and most of all ordinary people. |
| 0:16.9 | And I should warn you now some people might find parts of this week |
| 0:27.8 | week living and dying with Alzheimer's. |
| 0:31.8 | The last evening before she died, we went to a three, four star restaurant. |
| 0:37.0 | We had a beautiful meal, laughed and cried, and there was no tomorrow that evening, it was so special. |
| 0:45.0 | But then you go home and well it's very hard to get sleep night before. |
| 0:57.0 | Brother and sister Frank and Anika, |
| 0:59.0 | remembering the last night of their mother Annie's life. |
| 1:03.0 | She wrote a letter to God to take care of us. |
| 1:07.0 | To take care of her children, but that she was convinced that she made the right decision. |
| 1:13.0 | For Annie Ziningberg, who had Alzheimer's disease, |
| 1:17.0 | that decision was euthanasia, |
| 1:20.0 | and she'd known it from the day she was diagnosed, she never wavered. |
| 1:24.0 | She knew that if there was a God, it would be a really warm forgiving God. |
| 1:32.8 | And... |
| 1:33.8 | But she said it's a pity that I can't send an email back to my children to tell them how this. |
| 1:38.8 | Yeah. |
| 1:39.8 | In this program we're going to talk about death and dying with |
| 1:46.9 | Alzheimer's the most common form of dementia. It's one of the first things people |
| 1:52.3 | who are diagnosed think about. |
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