Imprisoning people with Alzheimer’s
The face of disability is changing and it is us. We are becoming an aging society and our living longer has revealed to us new accouterments of aging in the form of various dementias, most of which are physical. Our laws and our views of the rights of people need to keep pace. Should a person so afflicted be imprisoned in one place, unable to change residence to a place where she can be more free, better cared for? We have a right to move about the country—if we have our full physical faculties. But as soon as those faculties have waned, we say they cannot change the legal status of their lives. Is this in keeping with our highest values of freedom?
:- Doug.
