Thank you for your comment, hopefully alerting people to think about such a situation. Offering oneself for tests is one thing, but to offer a child or a person with limited understanding seems unacceptable.
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The nurenberg laws and the Human Research laws require that an individual give informed consent before being subjected to human research and testing. Including citizens with cognitive impairment in trials or human experimentation for drugs when they are unable to give informed consent not only is illegal, it is unethical, immoral and voilates human rights. I wonder how the Alzheimer's association is getting informed consent from citizens who have advanced alzheimers. No surrogate health care decision maker should be allowed to approve medical testing or experimental drugs. You have no idea how an experimental drug may be hurting or harming a person who has cognitive impairment. Furthermore, the person who is being subject to testing, must have the ability to ask that the testing be stopped. Please read about the human research laws before advocating such heinous abuse of the elderly with conginitive impairments.
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I wonder if there would ever be any possibility for a clinical trial comprised entirely of seniors. Surely we have something to learn for the demographic that's so particularly afflicted with health issues.
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