Oral question asked in the House of Lords, by Baroness Pitkeathley (Labour). It was answered on Wednesday, 2 December 2009.
Dementia
- Question
- Does my noble friend’s indication of that extend to helping carers at home to make difficult decisions that are very much in the field of ethics? Those decisions may go from asking themselves, "Can I lock him in while I go to do the shopping?" to deciding whose needs are paramount when residential care is being considered. Will the Government help carers with those kinds of ethical decisions?
- Answer
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The report refers to many of those decisions. The person who is caring for the person with dementia is best placed to take those decisions, but they need support in that. Proper education and training for professionals and carers have been identified as something that we need to address; we need to look at where there are gaps, which indeed there are, and we need to make sure that this is one of our priorities.
Secondary information
- Type
- Oral question
- Reference
- 715 c734
- Session
- 2009-10
- Oral question type
- Supplementary
- Chamber / Committee
- House of Lords chamber
- Subjects
- Dementia Ethics Nuffield Council on Bioethics
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- View this Oral question on www.publications.parliament.uk
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