Toward a political model of dementia: Power as compassionate care

摘要: Abstract During the last twenty years, a person-centered model of dementia has effectively challenged biomedical and revolutionized caregiving practices to be more compassionate. Yet this focus on personhood not dislodged from its influential place within law, instead reinforced importance legal personhood—a concept that is dependent mental capacity. This article an attempt shift discourse away power. It uses Rollo May's theory power as lens through which critique biomedical, social constructionist, phenomenological models dementia, then builds political approaches argue merits based compassionate