Dementia Bill of Rights
All Persons Living and Dying with Dementia Deserve the Right:
1. To Be informed of their diagnoses to know what is going on in order to ensure choices about care and treatments.
2. To Be provided with appropriate and on going medical care and holistic care of the highest quality specific to each person's physical, mental, emotional, spiritual and environmental needs.
3. To Be provided, and engaged in meaningful and purposeful activity as often as supports and meets their Core needs of Love, Identity, Occupation, Inclusion, Comfort and Attachment.
4. To Be treated as adults, not as children.
5. To Be engaged in life through meaningful relationships and activities designed with personal interests.
6. To Be free from psychotropic drugs and other medications used as chemical restraints in place of skilled person centered interventions
7. To Have free and ample access to out of doors to enjoy their environments.
8. To Have free and ample loving and respectful physical contact.
9. To Be cared for by people who know who they are.
10. To Be cared for by people who are competent, consistently trained and skilled in person centered care for all stages of life regardless of mental
capacity or physical ability.
All persons have the right to be valued for who they are, be treated as individuals, engage in and experience purposeful and meaningful activities, build relationships, and to experience life in a supportive, positive social environment that respects and honors each resident, their families, staff, volunteers and the community at large.