Decision-Making, Personhood and Dementia (eBook)

Acknowledgements. Introduction: 1. Decision-making, Personhood and Dementia:Mapping the Terrain. Deborah O'Connor and Barbara Purves. Part I: Conceptualizing the Issues. 2. Narrative and Decision-making. Clive Baldwin, Bradford Dementia Group, UK. 3. Decision-making as Social Practice. Andre Smith, University of Victoria, British Colombia, Canada. 4. Hunting Good Will in the Wilderness. MaryLou Harrigan, University of British Colombia, Vancouver, Canada, and Grant Gillett, University of Otago Medical School, Dunedin, New Zealand. 5. A Confucian Two-dimensional Approach to Personhood, Dementia and Decision-making. Daniel Fu-Chang Tsai, National Taiwan University, Taiwan. 6. Cultural safety, Decision-making and Dementia: Troubling Notions of Autonomy and Personhood. Wendy Hulko and Louise Stern, University of British Colombia, Vancouver, Canada. Part II: Policy and Practice Issues. 7. Decisions, Decisions: Linking Personalisation to Person-centred Care. Jill Manthorpe, Kings College, London, UK. 8. Confronting the Challenges of Assessing Capacity: Dementia in the Context of Abuse. Deborah O'Connor and Martha Donnelly, University of British Colombia, Vancouver, Canada. 9. Capacity, Vulnerability, Risk and Consent: Personhood in the Law. Margaret Isabel Hall, University of British Colombia, Vancouver, Canada. 10. Personhood, Financial Decision-making and Dementia: An Australian Perspective. Cheryl Tilse, Jill Wilson and Deborah Setterlund, University of Queensland, Australia. Part III: Understanding at the Everyday Level. 11. Narrative and Decision-making. John Keady, Manchester, UK, Sion Williams, University of Wales, Bangor, UK and John-Hughes Roberts, Glan Traeth Day Hospital, Wales, UK. 12. Personhood, Dementia and the Use of Formal Support Services: Exploring the Decision-making Process. Deborah O'Connor and Elizabeth Kelson, University of British Colombia, Vancouver, Canada. 13. Families, Dementia and Decisions. Barbara Purves and JoAnn Perry, University of British Colmbia, Canada. 14. The Communicative Capacity of the Body and Clinical Decision-making in Dementia Care. Pia C.Kontos and Gary Naglie, University of Toronto, Canada. 15. Conclusion. Decision-making and Dementia: Toward a Social Model of Understanding. Deborah O'Connor, Barbara Purves and Murna Downs, Bradford Dementia Group, UK. Contributors. Index.