Dementia, Frailty and Triage in a Pandemic

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This article refers to:

Frailty, an Imperfect ICU Rationing Criterion

The Frailty of Disability: A Controversial Triage Criterion

Frailty Triage: Is Rationing Intensive Medical Treatment on the Grounds of Frailty Ethical?

The Complex Relationship between Disability Discrimination and Frailty Scores

A Critique of the Use of the Clinical Frailty Scale in Triage

The Other Side of Triage: When Access to Intensive Care Measures May Do More Harm than Good

Doing Justice to Patients with Dementia in ICU Triage

Triage Criteria: Medically, Ethically or Socially Defined?

Triage: Medical Details and Words Matter

Notes

1 To be clear: the claim is about benefit or value to the individual, not about the benefit or value to others. Reynolds et al argue that following the insights of the ‘mere difference’ view, disabilities do not necessarily have a negative prudential effect on a person as a whole. However, as they acknowledge, the view that cognitive disabilities (and perhaps particularly severe or profound cognitive disabilities) are ‘mere differences’, rather than ‘bad differences’ is much more controversial (Reynolds et al. 2021).

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Funding

This research was funded in whole, or in part, by the Wellcome Trust [203132/Z/16/Z] and by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) as part of the UK Research and Innovation rapid response to Covid-19 [AH/V013947/1]. The funders had no role in the preparation of this manuscript or the decision to submit for publication.