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  • Ethics & Dignity: Rights, autonomy and dignity with dementia

    Broad Objective:

    • Improving the rights and respecting the dignity of individuals living with dementia through focusing
      • on existing advance declarations of will and
      • on good practices in the competence assessment in dementia
    • involving a large group of EU countries and experts

    Main Objectives

    1. Advance declarations of will
      • Overview of existing ADWs in European Member States
      • Analysis of ADWs
      • Assessment of practice and use of ADWs
      • Identification of best practices: legal framework, content and promotion of use
    2. Competence assessment of people with dementia
      • Overview of good practices that help to assess competence in European member States.
    • Fondation Roi Baudouin.KBF. Belgium. WP Leader.
    • Assistance Publique. Hopitaux de Paris. Espace Ethique. France.
    • Terveyden Ja Hyvinvoinnin Laitos. THL. Finland.
    • Collaborative Partners: Luxemburg (Health Minister).

  • Milestone
    Expected Ending Month
    		Other partners involved
    Mapping of the existing models of advance declarations of will and development of a standard framework with minimal requirements.
    March 2012
    		 No specified yet
    Multidisciplinary analysis and identification of good practices on Competence Assessment, including the use of psychotropic drugs.
    March 2012
    Working group on Advanced Declaration of Will: identification of best practices
    April 2012
    Main Deliverable
    Recommendations to improve rights& dignity of people with dementia
    March 2013

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