Too soon or too late: Rethinking the significance of six months when dementia is a primary diagnosis

Too soon or too late: Rethinking the significance of six months when dementia is a primary diagnosis
The Hastings Center Report, by Cindy L. Cain, Timothy E. Quill; 1/24
In the case of people living with advanced dementia, six months is both too early in the trajectory to facilitate conversations and too late in the trajectory to ensure decision-making capacity. This essay encourages scholars and policy-makers to consider how cultural narratives may limit what they think is possible in care for people living with dementia.