Julian C. Hughes

How We Think About Dementia (eBook, ePUB)

Personhood, Rights, Ethics, the Arts and What They Mean for Care

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Exploring concepts of ageing, personhood, capacity, liberty, best interests and the nature and ethics of palliative care, this book will help those in the caring professions to understand and engage with the thoughts and arguments underpinning the experience of dementia and dementia care.

Dementia is associated with ageing: what is the significance of this? People speak about person-centred care, but what is personhood and how can it be maintained? What is capacity, and how is it linked with the way a person with dementia is cared for as a human being? How should we think about the law in relation to the care of older people? Is palliative care the right approach to dementia, and if so what are the consequences of this view? What role can the arts play in ensuring quality of life for people with dementia?

In answering such questions, Julian Hughes brings our attention back to the philosophical and ethical underpinnings of dementia care, shedding new light on the significance and implications for those in the caring professions, academics and researchers, and those living with dementia and their families.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Juli 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780857008558
• Artikelnr.: 41208512

Autorenporträt

Professor Julian C. Hughes is Consultant in Old Age Psychiatry for Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust and Honorary Professor of Philosophy of Ageing at the Policy, Ethics and Life Sciences (PEALS) Research Centre, Newcastle University. He is co-author of Ethical Issues in Dementia Care: Making Difficult Decisions, also published by JKP. He lives in Newcastle, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface. Introduction. Part I: Ageing. 1. Our Changing Expectations of
Life: What Do We Really Want? 2. Research, Ageing and Dementia. Part II:
Personhood. 3. Memory: Inner or Outer? 4. I am still the same person. 5.
The Body in Dementia. Part III: Capacity and Incapacity. 6. 'Capacity':
What is it and so what? 7. Capacity Legislation in Practice: Balancing
Personal and Polis. 8. Incapacity and Mental Disorder. Part IV: Palliative
and Supportive Care. 9. Beyond Hypercognitivism. 10. Understanding the
Language of Distress. 11. Ethics, Patterns, Causes and Pathways: In Pursuit
of Good Palliative Care. 12. Intentions and Best Interests: Dying and
Killing. Part V: Arts. 13. The Art and Practice of Memory and Forgetting
co-authored with Ashley McCormick, artist, curator and educator. 14. In
Praise of 'Negative Capability': Keats and Killick. Conclusion: Care -
Solicitude and Solidarity. References and Further Reading. Index.