Human Rights

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Posted: November 17, 2022

Preventing the institutionalization of people with dementia and Assessing an assisted-living or long-term care institution

Margaret Oldfield
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Abstract In a 2021 poll by the National Institute on Aging, 97% of Canadian seniors said they did not want to live in a long-term-care facility (a nursing home). Many long-term-care residents do not need to be in institutions, whose numerous drawbacks were exposed during the COVID-19 pandemic. Residents are there because they cannot receive… Read more »

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Posted: July 5, 2022

Reparations for Harms Experienced in Residential Aged Care

Linda Steele + Kate Swaffer
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This paper explores the possibility of reparations for harms suffered by people in residential aged care, focusing on experiences of people with dementia. We first explain how systemic and structural harms occur within residential aged care and outline how they constitute human rights violations. Published in the Health and Human Rights Journal (28 June 2022).

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Posted: May 2, 2021

Human Rights and the Confinement of People Living with Dementia in Care Homes

Linda Steele

Linda Steele, Ray Carr, Kate Swaffer, Lyn Phillipson, and Richard Fleming authored ‘Human Rights and the Confinement of People Living with Dementia in Care Homes’ in the Health and Human Rights Journal volume 22(1), June 2020.  

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Posted: May 2, 2021

COVID-19 and Sites of Confinement

Linda Steele

Sara Dehm, Claire Loughnan and Linda Steele authored the article ‘COVID-19 and Sites of Confinement: Public Health, Disposable Lives and Legal Accountability in Immigration Detention and Aged Care’ in the UNSW Law Journal volume 44(1) in April 2021.

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Posted: April 28, 2020

Safe and Just Futures for People Living with Dementia in Residential Aged Care

Linda Steele

The ‘Safe and Just Futures for People Living with Dementia in Residential Aged Care’ project looked at common aspects of the environmental design of residential aged care facilities that detrimentally impact on the quality of life and human rights of people living with dementia. The project was funded by a Dementia Australia Research Foundation Victoria… Read more »

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Posted: April 28, 2020

Human rights for people living with dementia: an Australian anthology

Linda Steele

This resource is an outcome of the ‘Safe and Just Futures for People Living with Dementia in Residential Aged Care’. The project looked at common aspects of the environmental design of residential aged care facilities that detrimentally impact on the quality of life and human rights of people living with dementia. Linda Steele, Kate Swaffer,… Read more »

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Posted: October 7, 2019

To equality – and beyond? Queer reflections on an emerging rights-based approach to dementia in Scotland

Richard Ward

Westwood S & Price E (eds.) Lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans* individuals living with dementia: concepts, practice and rights. Routledge Advances in Sociology, 181. London: Routledge

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Posted: September 30, 2019

Questioning Segregation of People Living with Dementia in Australia

Linda Steele

Linda Steele, Kate Swaffer, Lyn Phillipson and Richard Fleming, ‘Questioning Segregation of People Living with Dementia in Australia: An International Human Rights Approach to Care Homes’, (2019) 8(3) Laws 18, https://doi.org/10.3390/laws8030018

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