Is It Proper to Encourage People to Donate a Kidney?
A kidney donation can undoubtably save a life. However, considering there is a level of risk associated with donating a kidney, should people be encouraged to undergo this process? If there is a risk, even if it is a low one, is it even permitted to donate a kidney to someone else?
Advice for Pesach and the Seder Night with a Dementia Patient
The fulfillment of mitzvot is a very challenging process for people with dementia, especially on Pesach and the Seder Night.
Pesach and the Seder Night for Dementia Patients and their Families
This compendium is the result of collaboration of the Tzohar with the organization Emda, who cooperate with us throughout the year.
Guardianship and Advance Directives
A Primer to Filling Out the Guardianship Documents and Advance Directives
Guardianship or Advance Directive?
Cognitive impairment, loss of decision-making capacity, and the inability to communicate together create a complex reality where the patient is unable to express their wishes. However, there are a host of original solutions dedicated to these complicated situations.
Halachic Guidelines for Purim for a Person with Dementia, Those Sick with Complex Disease, and their Family Members
Introduction The days of Purim are days of joy, and the fulfillment of the holiday’s mitzvot – reading the megillah, mishloach manot, matanot le’evyonim, and the mitzvah feast (together with the reading of Parshat Zachor on the Shabbat before Purim, and Taanit Esther) – can awaken pleasant memories and emotions and generally can uplift the […]
The Jewish Perspective on Palliative Care
The goal of palliative care is to provide comfort in situations where a disease is terminal. Does halacha recognize these types of treatments? How much do we factor in the patient’s wishes in these contexts? Is it permissible to administer this treatment when it could shorten the life of the patient? Is there an obligation for man to fight for his life?
Position Paper – The Halachot of Terminal Illness
Does the obligation of preservation of life mandate treatment at any cost? When are we obligated to treat and when is it proper to exercise restraint?
A Compendium of Relevant Halachot
Yom Kippur – A Sick Person and a Person with Dementia
1. Introduction On Yom Kippur we separate from all aspects of life, we abstain from performing melacha, eating, and drinking and we focus on prayer and repentance. For a sick person and those taking care of them, there is no break on Yom Kippur; a dementia patient’s caretakers involve themselves in this throughout the year […]
Position Paper – Obligations of a Dementia Patient on Fast Days and in Mourning Rites of the Three Weeks
Guiding principles, customs, and halachot for the Three Weeks and fast days for a person suffering from dementia and those around them.
