Safe and Just Futures for People Living with Dementia in Residential Aged Care

Project Member(s): Steele, L.

Funding or Partner Organisation: Dementia Australia Research Foundation Ltd
Dementia Australia Research Foundation Ltd

Start year: 2018

Publications:

Steele, L, Phillipson, L, Swaffer, K & Fleming, R 2023, 'Segregation and incarceration of people living with dementia in care homes' in Ward, R & Sandberg, L (eds), Critical Dementia Studies, Routledge, Abingdon, pp. 151-167.
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Steele, L, Carr, R, Swaffer, K, Phillipson, L & Fleming, R 2020, 'Human Rights and the Confinement of People Living with Dementia in Care Homes.', Health Hum Rights, vol. 22, no. 1, pp. 7-19.

Steele, L, Swaffer, K, Carr, R, Phillipson, L & Fleming, R 2020, 'Ending confinement and segregation: barriers to realising human rights in the everyday lives of people living with dementia in residential aged care', Australian Journal of Human Rights, vol. 26, no. 2, pp. 308-328.
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Steele, L & Redman, B 2020, 'Human Rights in Residential Aged Care: Lessons Learned'.

Steele, L & Redman, B 2020, 'The Importance of Involvement of People Living with Dementia in Human Rights Research'.

Steele, L, Swaffer, K, Phillipson, L, Carr, R & Fleming, R 2020, 'Submission on Human Rights of People Living with Dementia in Residential Aged Care Facilities to the Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety (2020)'.

Steele, L, Swaffer, K, Phillipson, L, Carr, R & Fleming, R 2020, 'Submission on People Living with Dementia in Residential Aged Care Facilities to the Royal Commission into Violence, Abuse, Neglect and Exploitation of People with Disability (2020)'.

Steele, L, Swaffer, K, Phillipson, L & Fleming, R 2019, 'Questioning Segregation of People Living with Dementia in Australia: An International Human Rights Approach to Care Homes', Laws, vol. 8, no. 3, pp. 18-18.
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Steele, L 2018, 'Submission to Commonwealth Department of Health on Terms of Reference for Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety (2018)'.

Steele, L, Fleming, R, Phillipson, L & Swaffer, K 2018, 'Human Rights of People Living with Dementia and Segregation through Residential Aged Care Facilities'.

FOR Codes: Human Rights Law, Aged Health Care, Law Reform, Disability and Functional Capacity, Medical and health law, Domestic human rights law

Acknowledgement of Country

UTS acknowledges the Gadigal people of the Eora Nation, the Boorooberongal people of the Dharug Nation, the Bidiagal people and the Gamaygal people, upon whose ancestral lands our university stands. We would also like to pay respect to the Elders both past and present, acknowledging them as the traditional custodians of knowledge for these lands.