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Why is it important?
People with a diagnosis of dementia are people first, and a condition second. They still have a right to a quality of life, which includes expressions of what is important to them, and to be supported to take reasonable and calculated risks in order to achieve their personal wishes. However, we live in a context of fear and blame, where practitioners would like to take reasoned risks with people, but are overwhelmed by what may happen in the relatively rare event of decisions going dramatically wrong. This article helps to challenge those fears and provide a structured way of making defensible decisions, not defensive decisions.
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This page is a summary of: Positive risk-taking: from rhetoric to reality, The Journal of Mental Health Training Education and Practice, May 2016, Emerald,
DOI: 10.1108/jmhtep-09-2015-0045.
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