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Decision making, personhood, and dementia : exploring the interface / edited by Deborah O'Connor and Barbara Purves.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Dementia.
- Decision making.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (226 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia, PA : Jessica Kingsley Publishers, c2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Based on papers from the Centre for Research on Personhood in Dementia workshop, experts discuss the interface between dementia, personhood and decision-making. Drawing on a range of perspectives, the book forges new understandings of relationships between informal decision-making and formal biomedical or legal processes for assessing competence.
- Contents:
- FRONT COVER; Decision-Making, Personhood and Dementia: Exploring the Interface; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. Decision-Making, Personhood and Dementia: Mapping the Terrain; Part 1: Conceptualizing the Issues; 2. Narrative and Decision-Making; 3. Decision-Making as Social Practice: Exploring the Relevance of Bourdieu's Concepts of Habitus and Symbolic Capital; 4. Hunting Good Will in the Wilderness; 5. A Confucian Two-Dimensional Approach to Personhood, Dementia, and Decision-Making; 6. Cultural Safety, Decision-Making and Dementia: TroublingNotions of Autonomy and Personhood
- Part 2: Policy and Practice Issues 7. Decisions, Decisions... Linking Personalization to Person-Centred Care; 8. Confronting the Challenges of Assessing Capacity:Dementia in the Context of Abuse; 9. Capacity, Vulnerability, Risk and Consent: Personhood in the Law; 10. Personhood, Financial Decision-Making and Dementia:An Australian Perspective; Part 3: Understanding at the Everyday Level; 11. Analysing Decision-Making: Bridging and Balancing; 12. Personhood, Dementia and the Use of Formal Support Services: Exploring the Decision-Making Process; 13. Families, Dementia and Decisions
- 14. The Communicative Capacity of the Body and Clinical Decision-Making in Dementia Care Conclusion; 15. Decision-Making and Dementia: Toward a Social Model of Understanding; Contributors; Subject Index; Author Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786612297366
- 9781282297364
- 1282297368
- 9781846429408
- 1846429404
- OCLC:
- 458616030
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