Dementia and Human Rights /

Dementia and Human Rights / / Suzanne Cahill.

The time has come to further challenge biomedical and clinical thinking about dementia, which has for so long underpinned policy and practice. Framing dementia as a disability, this book takes a rights-based approach to expand the debate. Applying a social constructionist lens, it builds on earlier...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Bristol UP/Policy Press Complete eBook-Package 2018
VerfasserIn:
Cahill, Suzanne,
MitwirkendeR:
Flynn, Eilionóir,
Place / Publishing House:Bristol : : Policy Press, , [2018]
©2018
Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (252 p.) :; 3 Black and White
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Table of Contents:
  • Front Matter
  • Contents
  • List of tables and figures
  • Acknowledgements
  • Foreword
  • A conceptual framework
  • An introduction to human rights and dementia
  • Dementia as a disability
  • Setting the context: The UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
  • Using a human rights lens to interrogate policy and practice
  • The right to a good quality of life at home and in the community
  • The right to a good quality of life in care homes or in nursing homes
  • Emerging public policy on dementia: the implications of a human rights-based approach for policy and practice
  • Legal capacity for people with dementia: a human rights approach
  • Conclusions: grounds for hope
  • References
  • Index

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