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Dementia and personhood
— the maintenance of personhood should be central to diagnosis, treatment and care | | Author(s) | Tom Kitwood |
| Journal title | In: Dementia in focus: research, care and policy into the 21st century; Centre for Policy on Ageing, Research into Ageing, 1998 |
| Publisher | Centre for Policy on Ageing, London, 1998 |
| Pages | pp 21-34 (CPA reports, 24) |
| Source | Central Books, 50 Freshwater Road, Chadwell Heath, Dagenham, RM8 1RX. |
| Keywords | Dementia ; Personality ; Rights [elderly] ; Diagnosis ; Therapeutics ; Management [care]. |
| Annotation | Our fundamental aim in caring for people who have dementia should be to maintain personhood in the face of advancing cognitive impairment - whatever their age or culture, and whatever the underlying neuropathology in their brains may be. Our concern is with the whole person: mind, body, emotion and spirit. This maintenance of personhood can be summarised as: recognising that the experience of any man or woman has its own psychological validity; acknowledging that all human life is grounded in relationship; and seeing each individual as a genuine source of action, able to evoke a response from others and make things happen. What maintaining personhood involves means attempting to meet a person's psychological needs for: comfort, attachment, inclusion, occupation, and identity. Finally, the structure and process of care is considered. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-981109003 A |
| Classmark | EA: DK: IKR: LK7: LL: QA |
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