Dear SDS members Please see event details below on reparations for people living with dementia which might be of interest. The principles and report are grounded in the UNCRPD and thus have connections to disability rights more broadly. I would be grateful if you can please forward the details of our event to any colleagues or friends who you think might be interest. Thank you. Kind Regards Linda Dr Linda Steele (she/her) Associate Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Technology Sydney .... You are invited to the online launches of the Dementia Reparations Principles and project report. 'How can we redress and repair violence, abuse and neglect of people living with dementia in residential aged care?' Join researchers Linda Steele (University of Technology Sydney) and Kate Swaffer (Dementia Alliance International) in conversation with: Professor Claudia Mahler (United Nations Independent Expert on the Enjoyment of all Human Rights by Older Person), Professor Israel Issi Doron (University of Haifa), Bethany Brown (International Disability Alliance) More info and register: https://events.humanitix.com/reparations-for-people-living-with-dementia-in-aged-care Access the report and principles If you cannot attend this event but would like to read our report and the Dementia Reparations Principles, you can register to access them (they will be publicly available on 13 March 2023): https://www.dementiajustice.org/get-involved Contact Email Associate Professor Linda Steele for more information: linda.steele@uts.edu.au<mailto:linda.steele@uts.edu.au> About the Dementia Reparations Principles People living with dementia have been subject to significant harm including violence, abuse and neglect in aged care. Yet, this harm is rarely recognised and redressed. People living with dementia in aged care, as well as care partners and family members, encounter ineffective complaint and prosecutorial processes, including barriers to reporting harm to the police, and difficulty accessing justice through the courts. The systems that allow harm to occur remain unchanged and continue to perpetrate further harm. People living with dementia and their care partners and family members await accountability, justice and change. During 2021 and 2022, we (Linda Steele and Kate Swaffer) explored how to redress the harm experienced by people living with dementia in residential aged care. We heard from people living with dementia, care partners and family, advocates and lawyers in Australia. We also considered what international human rights say about the need and design of redress. And, we looked at the design and lived experiences of other Australian redress schemes such as the National Redress Scheme for survivors of institutional child sexual abuse. Based on our research we developed a set of principles to guide the design and operation of reparations for people with dementia. We workshopped a draft of the principles with people living with dementia, care partners and family, advocates and lawyers. Our new report called Reparations for harm to people living with dementia in residential aged care provides an evidence-base for the Dementia Reparations Principles. The report finds that government, the justice system, health care and aged care providers are failing to recognise, redress and repair this harm, and hold those responsible to account. The report also finds that people living with dementia, and their care partners and family, want reparations that will bring about recognition, accountability and change, now. UTS CRICOS Provider Code: 00099F DISCLAIMER: This email message and any accompanying attachments may contain confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient, do not read, use, disseminate, distribute or copy this message or attachments. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender immediately and delete this message. Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender, except where the sender expressly, and with authority, states them to be the views of the University of Technology Sydney. Before opening any attachments, please check them for viruses and defects. Think. Green. Do. Please consider the environment before printing this email.