Dementia
Consultation
This consultation closed on 31 July 2008.
The Council would like to thank everyone who contributed to the consultation. The responses are being considered by the Working Party.
Where permission has been granted, the responses will be available to download from this website after the Working Party has published its Report.
Although the consultation has now closed, you can still download the consultation paper. A shortened version of the consultation paper is also available for people who would prefer a briefer document, which may include those with dementia.
Full consultation paper - PDF
Shortened version of the consultation paper - PDF
Click here to download large print versions of these documents.
The consultation paper asks people to consider a range of questions, including:
- How can carers, families and doctors weigh up what treatment and care a person would have wanted before they developed dementia, and what they appear to want now?
- Are advance directives (also known as ‘living wills’) an effective way of making decisions about treatment and care before the capacity to make a decision is lost?
- Is it ever right to restrain a person with dementia, for example to reduce the risks of wandering?
- It is ever right to deceive a person with dementia, for example by disguising medication in food?
- Should people with dementia be involved in research if they are no longer able to choose for themselves whether or not to participate?
Last Updated Fri, 22 August 2008