Human Rights

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Posted: December 6, 2024

The Biopolitics of Dementia A Neurocritical Perspective

James Fletcher
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This book explores how dementia studies relates to dementia’s growing public profile and corresponding research economy. The book argues that a neuropsychiatric biopolitics of dementia positions dementia as a syndrome of cognitive decline, caused by discrete brain diseases, distinct from ageing, widely misunderstood by the public, that will one day be overcome through technoscience. This… Read more »

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Posted: December 6, 2024

Still here, still queer? Queer lives and subjectivities in dementia care

Linn Sandberg + Anna Siverskog
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This article explores possibilities for the emergence of queer lives and queer subjectivities in dementia care, the meaning of being queer for people living in residential dementia care and how they relate to queer subjectivity. Our study, drawing on qualitative interviews with four people living in dementia care homes, show how being queer was associated… Read more »

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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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