Dementia and human rights Cahill Suzanne Paperback
Dementia and human rights Cahill Suzanne Paperback The time has come to further challenge biomedical and clinical thinking about dementia, which has for so long underpinned policy and practice.…
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Dementia and human rights Cahill Suzanne Paperback
The time has come to further challenge biomedical and clinical thinking about dementia, which has for so long underpinned policy and practice. Applying a social constructionist lens, it builds on earlier critical perspectives by bringing together concepts including disability, social inclusion, personhood, equality, participation, dignity, empowerment, autonomy and solidarity. Framing dementia as a disability, this book takes a rights-based approach to expand the debate.
A human rights-based approach has not to date been fully applied to interrogate the lived experience and policy response to dementia. Launching the debate into new and exciting territory, the book argues that people living with dementia come within the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and therefore have full entitlement to all the rights the Convention enshrines. With the fresh analytical tools