“It’s time for a new ethic of care to replace the stigma of dementia… Specifically, we need an ethic that challenges stigma by broadening the duty of care to include fully supporting the capacity of individuals living with dementia for creativity, imagination and other positive potentialities.”

Authors:  Alisa Grigorovich, PhD, University of Toronto, and Pia Kontos, PhD, University of Toronto

 

This article focuses on a culture of care which is an issue not just for Canadians, health professionals and residential care providers! It is for the whole of society.

“Over 80 per cent of Canada’s COVID-related deaths are associated with nursing homes, with the majority of them being older persons living with dementia.

“Moreover, recent international research suggests that COVID-19 public health restrictions have contributed to tens of thousands of additional deaths among people living with dementia in nursing home settings as a result of barriers in access to care and social isolation.

“This is a national atrocity, and worse, one largely of our own making.” Read the full article here.

Source:  COVID-19, stigma and the scandalous neglect of people living with dementia

This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article.

Authors:

, PhD, Academic Fellow at the Centre for Critical Qualitative Health Research, University of Toronto

, PhD, Associate Professor and Senior Scientist, University of Toronto

Posted by: Susan Troyer