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Dementia And Guns: When Should Doctors Broach The Topic?
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Some patients refuse to answer. Many doctors don�t ask. As the number of Americans with dementia rises, health professionals are grappling with when and how to pose the question: �Do you have guns at home?�
While gun violence data is scarce, a Kaiser Health News investigation with PBS NewsHour published in June uncovered over 100 cases across the U.S. since 2012 in which people with dementia used guns to kill themselves or others. The shooters often acted during bouts of confusion, paranoia, delusion or aggression � common symptoms of dementia. Tragically they shot spouses, children and caregivers. |
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| When he's babbling, drooling and pissing himself right in the doctor's office. |
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| Are we at last brought to such humiliating and debasing degradation, that we cannot be trusted with arms for our defense? Where is the difference between having our arms in possession and under our direction, and having them under the management of Congress? If our defense be the real object of having those arms, in whose hands can they be trusted with more propriety, or equal safety to us, as in our own hands? � Patrick Henry, 3 J. Elliot, Debates in the Several State Conventions 45, 2d ed. Philadelphia, 1836 |
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