Rights/Advocacy/Empowerment

  • Just how far have we really come?

    Sally Knocker reflects on the status of dementia care and says the time is right to make more of a noise about ageism and injustice to older people. Author/s: Sally Knocker For the full article please see the PDF download linked to the right. The full JDC archive is available if you subscribe....

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  • Once a friend: now a carer

    Winchester: In the third DASS pilot project, former carers work as volunteers with the local Alzheimer’s Society. Author/s: Jayne Lingard, Alisoun Milne For the full article please see the PDF download linked to the right. The full JDC archive is available if you subscribe....

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  • DASS: what it’s all about

    Calderdale: The Mental Health Foundation’s Dementia Advice and Support Services are taking shape, says Jayne Lingard Author/s: Jayne Lingard For the full article please see the PDF download linked to the right. The full JDC archive is available if you subscribe....

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  • Difficult decisions: what are a person’s ‘best interests’?

    Much dementia care practice is founded on an assumption of the person’s ‘best interests’ but these are often far from easy to determine. Reviewing the issues, Graham Stokes argues that care plans must be founded on agreed and conspicuous safeguards which are not only ethical but also easily understood and administered. Author/s: Graham Stokes For…...

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  • Bridges we need to build across the world of dementia care

    In an edited version of a speech he gave at the Alzheimer Europe Conference, Bridges into the Future, in Munich last year, Harry Cayton addresses the gaps between different parts of the dementia care world, and the bridges needed to link them. Author/s: Harry Cayton For the full article please see the PDF download linked…...

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  • Drawing out views on services: a new staff-based approach

    In the first of a three-part series, Kate Allan introduces Hearing the Voice of People with Dementia, a project exploring the process of staff, rather than outside researchers, undertaking service user consultation work with people with dementia Author/s: Kate Allan For the full article please see the PDF download linked to the right. The full…...

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  • A place to work it all out together

    Richard Cheston and Kerry Jones give guidance and discuss their experience of setting up and running support groups for people in the early stages of dementia Author/s: Richard Cheston, Kerry Jones For the full article please see the PDF download linked to the right. The full JDC archive is available if you subscribe....

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  • ASTRID: introducing assistive technology

    The ASTRID Group has produced a guide surveying the current use of assistive technology for people with dementia and their carers and how it may be developed. In this article, abridged from the guide, we introduce the issues. Author/s: rg/admin/jdcarticles-amend.pl For the full article please see the PDF download linked to the right. The full…...

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  • Speaking up: advocacy for people with dementia

    Advocacy can help an older person with dementia to have more control over their life – to exercise choice and represent their own interests. Claire Goodchild describes Westminster Advocacy Service’s two-year pilot project, which was independently evaluated and has produced guidelines for further work in this area. Author/s: Claire Goodchild For the full article please…...

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  • Opportunities – some more equal than others

    People with dementia should have equal rights and equal access to health and social services – but do they? Recent government surveys point to gaps and inadequacies, Derek Brown reports. Author/s: Derek Brown For the full article please see the PDF download linked to the right. The full JDC archive is available if you subscribe....

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