Katie Engelhart

Treatment wasn’t helping her anorexia, so doctors allowed her to stop — no matter the consequences. But is a “palliative” approach to mental illness really…

America’s prisons are filling up with people who are so old they don’t remember their crimes. What should we do with prisoners with dementia?

As cognitive decline began to alter who Diane Norelius was, her adult daughters and her boyfriend wound up in a bitter dispute over which version…