Symposium on ethics, agency and personhood in dementia
Novo Nordisk Foundation
University of Southern Denmark, Odense
Dementia is a growing problem and because dementia cannot be cured, our best chance of improving the lives of people with dementia, is ensuring good quality care. Caring for people with dementia raises several philosophical and ethical concerns. We stress the importance of person-centred care, but what is personhood and identity in people with dementia? We speak about maintaining autonomy, but to which extent is this possible in dementia? And what about changing of values? How are we supposed to act when the set of values of the person with dementia fundamentally differs from the set of values held by the person prior to the onset of dementia? This conference will dive deeper into these questions and provide an in-depth understanding of how we might understand what life with dementia is like. Might we make use of narratives, such as literature or film in gaining such understanding? The conference seeks to underpin an ethical and person-centred care and qualifying our view of dementia.
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