Summary
This resource, produced by the MacIntyre Dementia Project, is designed to provide:
- An understanding of what discrimination and stigma is and how it can affect a person.
- Knowledge of how to recognise when a person is being discriminated against.
- Knowledge of who to report concerns to.
Content
Contents:
- Definition of discrimination
- Why people with a learning disability are at increased risk of discrimination
- Additional discrimination seen when people have Dementia
- Definition of Stigma
- Why stigma is historically a BIG problem in Dementia
- The importance of challenging stigma to support living well
- What has been done to tackle stigma?
- The national ambition for reducing discrimination and stigma
- How discrimination and stigma can make a person feel
- Recognising discrimination and stigma in everyday life
- How to support a person when they are the subject of discrimination or stigma
- Reporting concerns
- How you can avoid being discriminatory or stigmatising
- Combating discrimination and stigma
- Taking inspiration from the disability movement
- Education! Education! Education.
Challenging discrimination and stigma: Dementia
https://www.macintyrecharity.org/download/file/2057/
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