Decision-making, personhood, and dementia : exploring the interface / edited by Deborah O'Connor and Barbara Purves.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Decision-making, personhood and dementia: mapping the terrain / Deborah O'Connor and Barbara Purves -- Narrative and decision-making / Clive Baldwin -- Decision-making as social practice : exploring the relevance of Bourdieu's concepts of habitus and symbolic capitol / André Smith -- Hunting good will in the wilderness / Marylou Harrigan and Grant Gillett -- A Confucian two-dimensional approach to personhood, dementia, and decision-making / Daniel Fu-Chang Tsai -- Cultural safety, decision-making, and dementia : troubling notions of autonomy and personhood / Wendy Hulko and Louise Stern -- Decisions, decisions linking personalisation to person-centred care / Jill Manthorpe -- Confronting the challenges of assessing capacity : dementia in the context of abuse / Deborah O'Connor and Martha Donnelly -- Capacity, vulnerability, risk, and consent : personhood in the law / Margaret Isabel Hall -- Personhood, financial decision-making, and dementia : an Australian perspective / Cheryl Tilse, Jill Wilson and Deborah Setterlund -- Analysing decision-making: bridging and balancing / John Keady, Sion Williams and John Hughes-Roberts -- Personhood, dementia, and the use of formal support services : exploring the decision-making process / Deborah O'Connor and Elizabeth Kelson -- Families, dementia, and decisions / Barbara Purves and Joann Perry -- The communicative capacity of the body and clinical decision-making in dementia care / Pia C. Kontos and Gary Naglie -- Decision-making and dementia: towards a social model of understanding / Deborah O'Connor, Barbara Purves and Murna Downs.

Dementia is a devastating disorder which may dramatically interfere with decision-making abilities. Effort has focused on trying to determine when a person is no longer capable of making particular decisions or is globally incompetent. However, much less focus has been placed on understanding how the capacity to make decisions influences one's view of oneself, one's world and one's treatment by others. This book aims to broaden discussion around this issue by moving beyond a focus on notions of capability and competence to explore the importance of personhood and the underlying complexities of.

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