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Dementia and Human Rights

Dementia and Human Rights

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Aging & Elder CareAlzheimer's & DementiaPoverty & Social Work

ISBN10: 1447331400
ISBN13: 9781447331407
Publisher: Policy Pr
Published: Apr 1 2018
Pages: 252
Weight: 0.83
Height: 0.60 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.10
Language: English

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 critical perspectives by bringing together concepts including disability, social inclusion, personhood, equality, participation, dignity, empowerment, autonomy and solidarity. 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.

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