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

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Narrative and decision-making -- Decision-making as social practice : exploring the relevance of Bourdieu's concepts of habitus and symbolic capitol -- Hunting good will in the wilderness -- A confucian two-dimensional approach to personhood, dementia, and decision-making -- Cultural safety, decision-making, and dementia : troubling notions of autonomy and personhood -- Decisions, decisions linking personalisation to person-centred care -- Confronting the challenges of assessing capacity : dementia in the context of abuse -- Capacity, vulnerability, risk, and consent : personhood in the law -- Personhood, financial decision-making, and dementia : an australian perspective -- Narrative and decision-making -- Personhood, dementia, and the use of formal support services : exploring the decision-making process -- Families, dementia, and decisions -- The communicative capacity of the body and clinical decision-making in dementia care.

This work dicusses the interface between dementia, personhood and decision-making. Drawing on a range of perspectives, the book forges new understandings of relationships between everyday, informal decision-making and more formal biomedical or legal processes for assessing competence.