What is best interest’s decision making?
The key issue about best interests, is that it does not become relevant if the person can make decisions for themselves. It is only when they are unable to make that decision [...]
The key issue about best interests, is that it does not become relevant if the person can make decisions for themselves. It is only when they are unable to make that decision [...]
Firstly and most importantly, people have sex, its fine, there is little enquiry that is done with the sex lives of other people, so it shouldn’t be different for people with dementia. [...]
The UK is a signatory to this convention, however the UK has not incorporated it into domestic legislation and there is no appeal to the UN for any potential breaches. So at [...]
Dementia does not necessarily mean a lack of capacity, but it might. It all depends of what the decision is being made and when it needs to be made. There can often [...]
When there is university academic research, there has to be an ethics consideration and some of the experiments that were done in the past are no longer possible, because of the ethics [...]
Lots of people have mixed feelings about Christmas. People can love it, love the presents, the sparkle, the food and seeing all their friends and family. Other people hate it, as everyone [...]
When anyone talks about another human being, if you feel that you have little in common or just plain and simple don’t like them, it is easy to slip into language that [...]
The space that we live in is important to us all and can have a big impact on the wellbeing of people affected by dementia. There are two key issues to the [...]
We just don’t need it! When someone looks at us and in our head we think “I know what you are thinking……”. We might, but we might not, it might just be [...]
It can be argued that all people who are looking after someone have some kind of faith, faith that things might turn out OK that day, faith in their own ability to [...]