The UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities has been at the center of
considerable debate in the field of mental health. The discussion has caught up in particular …

In this chapter I explore the right to legal capacity for people with dementia as set out in
Article 12 of the UN CRPD. As has been demonstrated in earlier chapters in this volume …

The Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) 1 requires not only a
rethinking of mental health laws (laws that simultaneously legitimise and limit coercive state …

Individuals and societies have interacted with people with dementia in different ways for as
long as the condition has existed. Sometimes this has involved support; sometimes …

This article focuses on the main legal provisions in Europe relating to the protection and
rights of people with dementia. The information referred to was obtained in the framework of …

The social model of disability—which is grounded in the lived realities of disabled people, as
well as their activism, research, and theoretical work—has enabled a historic turn in the …

The UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities spells out in the most up-to-
date and specific manner the rights of persons with disabilities. In doing so the Convention …

The recognition of legal capacity in Article 12 lies at the core of the UN Convention on the
Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) and is key to the full and equal enjoyment of all …

People with a mental illness may be subject to the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons
with Disabilities (CRPD), depending on definitions of terms such as 'impairment','long …

Legislation for dementia care needs to be continually rethought, if the rights of older persons
and other persons with dementia are to be addressed properly. We propose a theoretical …