Decision-Making, Personhood and Dementia (eBook, ePUB)

Exploring the Interface
Redaktion: O'Connor, Deborah; Purves, Barbara

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Dementia is a devastating disorder which may dramatically interfere with decision-making abilities. Effort has focused on trying to determine when a person is no longer capable of making particular decisions or is globally incompetent. However, much less focus has been placed on understanding how the capacity to make decisions influences one's view of oneself, one's world and one's treatment by others. This book aims to broaden discussion around this issue by moving beyond a focus on notions of capability and competence to explore the importance of personhood and the underlying complexities of decision-making for those with dementia.

Based on papers from the Centre for Research on Personhood in Dementia (CRPD) workshop, experts in dementia care, law, ethics and philosophy discuss the interface between dementia, personhood and decision-making. Drawing on a wide range of interdisciplinary and international perspectives, the book forges new understandings of relationships between everyday, informal decision-making and more formal biomedical or legal processes for assessing competence.

This collection of papers provides an in-depth understanding of decision-making in relation to dementia for researchers, healthcare practitioners, service providers, legal professionals and anyone with an interest in personhood in dementia care.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. April 2009
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781846429408
• Artikelnr.: 38355850

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements. Introduction: 1. Decision-making
Personhood and Dementia:Mapping the Terrain. Deborah O'Connor and Barbara Purves. Part I: Conceptualizing the Issues. 2. Narrative and Decision-making. Clive Baldwin
Bradford Dementia Group
UK. 3. Decision-making as Social Practice. Andre Smith
University of Victoria
British Colombia
Canada. 4. Hunting Good Will in the Wilderness. MaryLou Harrigan
University of British Colombia
Vancouver
Canada
and Grant Gillett
University of Otago Medical School
Dunedin
New Zealand. 5. A Confucian Two-dimensional Approach to Personhood
Dementia and Decision-making. Daniel Fu-Chang Tsai
National Taiwan University
Taiwan. 6. Cultural safety
Decision-making and Dementia: Troubling Notions of Autonomy and Personhood. Wendy Hulko and Louise Stern
University of British Colombia
Vancouver
Canada. Part II: Policy and Practice Issues. 7. Decisions
Decisions: Linking Personalisation to Person-centred Care. Jill Manthorpe
Kings College
London
UK. 8. Confronting the Challenges of Assessing Capacity: Dementia in the Context of Abuse. Deborah O'Connor and Martha Donnelly
University of British Colombia
Vancouver
Canada. 9. Capacity
Vulnerability
Risk and Consent: Personhood in the Law. Margaret Isabel Hall
University of British Colombia
Vancouver
Canada. 10. Personhood
Financial Decision-making and Dementia: An Australian Perspective. Cheryl Tilse
Jill Wilson and Deborah Setterlund
University of Queensland
Australia. Part III: Understanding at the Everyday Level. 11. Narrative and Decision-making. John Keady
Manchester
UK
Sion Williams
University of Wales
Bangor
UK and John-Hughes Roberts
Glan Traeth Day Hospital
Wales
UK. 12. Personhood
Dementia and the Use of Formal Support Services: Exploring the Decision-making Process. Deborah O'Connor and Elizabeth Kelson
University of British Colombia
Vancouver
Canada. 13. Families
Dementia and Decisions. Barbara Purves and JoAnn Perry
University of British Colmbia
Canada. 14. The Communicative Capacity of the Body and Clinical Decision-making in Dementia Care. Pia C.Kontos and Gary Naglie
University of Toronto
Canada. 15. Conclusion. Decision-making and Dementia: Toward a Social Model of Understanding. Deborah O'Connor
Barbara Purves and Murna Downs
Bradford Dementia Group
UK. Contributors. Index.