Dementia: The right to rehabilitation
Linda Clare, Professor of Clinical Psychology o f Aging and Dementia at the University of Exeter, said people with dementia have a right to cognitive rehabilitation -- and it is as relevant for them as physical rehabilitation for people with physical impairments. Writing in the journal PLOS Medicine , Professor Clare said both share a goal to enable people to participate in everyday life, and in their families and communities, in a way that is meaningful to them. Professor Clare said: "We tend to think of rehabilitation in terms of people with physical impairment following an injury, but it is equally important in people with cognitive impairment. As a society, we now have a much greater recognition that people with physical disabilities have the right to access services and opportunities, but there it still a long way to go for people with "hidden" disabilities such as dementia, in a landscape where the numbers of people with dementia are expected to rise from...