Recent and archived work by Katie Engelhart for The New York Times
When cognitive decline changes people, should we respect their new desires?
By Michael Barbaro, Katie Engelhart, Luke Vander Ploeg, Clare Toeniskoetter, Diana Nguyen, Michael Benoist, Marion Lozano, Dan Powell, Pat McCusker, Diane Wong and Alyssa Moxley
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 ethical?
By Katie Engelhart
America’s prisons are filling up with people who are so old, they don’t remember their crimes.
By Katie Engelhart
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 of her should get to decide what she wanted.
By Katie Engelhart
For the millions of Americans living with dementia, every day during this pandemic can bring a fresh horror.
By Katie Engelhart
Are we ok with that?
By Kim Rockwood
We don’t want doctors playing God. Here’s how we avoid that.
By Katie Engelhart and Dominic Smith
We don’t want doctors playing God. Here’s how we avoid that.
By Katie Engelhart and Dominic Smith
Mayor Sadiq Khan, the son of a Pakistani bus driver, has always made his home in Tooting, a gentrifying area that says much about the city’s evolving face.
By Katie Engelhart
More than 900 plaques offer the historically inclined London rambler a useful means of navigating the sprawling city and its layered history.
By Katie Engelhart