Human Rights and Empowerment in Aged Care: Restraint, Consent and Dying with Dignity.

ABSTRACT: The aged care system in Australia is in crisis and people living with dementia are especially vulnerable to breaches of human rights to autonomy, dignity, respect, and equitable access to the highest quality of health care including meeting needs on account of disability. To be powerful advocates for themselves and others, people with dementia and the wider community with vested interests in quality aged care must be informed about their rights and what should be expected from the system. Prior to the Australian Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety, the Empowered Project was established to empower and raise awareness amongst people with dementia and their families about changed behaviours, chemical restraint, consent, end of life care, and security of tenure. A primary care-e

SUBMITTER: Jessop T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8345762 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature