Conference paper
ETHICAL AND ORGANISATIONAL CONSIDERATIONS IN SCREENING FOR DEMENTIA
Thomas J. M. Weatherby
; University of Cambridge School of Clinical Medicine, Cambridge, UK
Mark Agius
; Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK; Clare College, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
Abstract
The United Kingdom National Screening Committee (UKNSC) defines screening as “the process of identifying individuals who
may be at higher risk of a disease or condition amongst large populations of healthy people”. Building on foundations laid by Wilson and Jungner in the landmark paper in 1968, the UKNSC states that “Once identified, those individuals can consider further tests, and healthcare providers can offer them interventions of benefit. A screening programme needs to offer more benefit than harm, at a reasonable cost to the NHS” (gov.uk 2014).
We will consider the ethical issues surrounding some of the UK’s screening programmes and other methods used to assess and
communicate patients’ risk of disease. We will discuss the appropriateness of candidate dementia biomarkers in order to inform
research into developing such a biomarker or series of biomarkers.
Keywords
Alzheimer’s disease; dementia; screening; ethics
Hrčak ID:
262968
URI
Publication date:
21.11.2018.
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