Dementia care through an ethical lens

Dementia presents ethical challenges and also challenges the principles that underpin Western health ethics.

Associate Professor Millett’s presentation addresses the issues of agency (doing things), autonomy (being able to choose to do things) and respect (helping and not hindering agency and autonomy) before offering an alternative way to regard people with dementia.

This way recognizes that people with dementia continue to have an inner life and continue to both experience and communicate with the world around them.

A WADTSC seminar presentation by Associate Professor Stephan Millet, Chair, Curtin University Human Research Ethics Committee, Foundation Director, Curtin Centre for Applied Ethics and Philosophy on 23 February 2011.

View the video presentation