The ethics of dementia care - with Vince Mitchell
About this episode
This episode explores the ethical challenges of dementia care with Vince Mitchell, focusing on personhood and alternative ethical models.
What ethical challenges are presented by caring for people with dementia? How should we understand - and respect - the personhood of those experiencing cognitive decline? And what can virtue ethics and care ethics contribute to the development of an alternative ethical model for dementia care? These are some of the questions we explore in this episode, in conversation with Vince Mitchell . Vince is a Lecturer in Health and Social Care, specialising in mental health, at The Open University (UK). He is a qualified mental health nurse with experience of nursing people in a wide variety of clinical settings. Having graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Health Care Practice and a Master of Arts in Applied Ethics from the University of York, Vince undertook doctoral research at the University of Surrey, where he was awarded a PhD in 2016 for his thesis examining ethical frameworks for dementia care. Since then, he has published a number of articles and book chapters on the ethics of mental health nursing and on ethical practice in dementia care. We discuss the following topics in this episode: Vince's journey into nursing (02:15) Working as a mental health nurse (04:50) Bridging the…
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