We definitely need to turn the table on who needs to be accommodated, and enabled to live in our society. Thus far, people with disabilities continue to be systemically marginalised, and accomodations that support us to live independently are more often determined by people withOUT disabilities. Yes, this is despite the motto, ‘Nothing about us,…
Yes, just as it is usually non-Indigenous people who are responsible for racism, people without dementia, and even some people with dementia, are partly responsible for stigma, discrimination, the continuance of rights violations, and the systemic injustices and exclusion many are still experiencing. The dementia friendly initiatives have done nothing to improve things either, other…
As a person living with a diagnosis of a rare young onset dementia and a retired (?!) activist engaged repeatedly in research, policy, and advocacy spaces, I argue that research which fails to achieve its stated aims is not simply ineffective—it constitutes a breach of disability rights as articulated in the United Nations Convention on…
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