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2024 U. Oxford Hum. Rts. Hub J. 1 (2024)

handle is hein.journals/uoxhruj2024 and id is 1 raw text is: 'The Compensation is Changing the Future': A Reparative Approach to Redressing Human Rights Violations Experienced by People Living with Dementia in Long Term Care Linda Steele and Kate Swaffer* Abstract This article presents findings of an empirical study of community perspectives on redressing human rights violations experienced by people with dementia in long term care institutions (LTC institutions). Research participants - including people with dementia - expressed strong preference for a redress approach providing recognition and validation of individuals' experiences of harm, affirming humanity of people with dementia, delivering accountability, and facilitating systems change. This can be understood as a 'reparative approach to redress' aligning with a human rights approach to redressing gross human rights violations; distinct from redress through domestic civil justice systems, which focuses on monetary payments and is often characterised as taking a corrective Dr Linda Steele is an Associate Professor at University of Technology Sydney Faculty of Law and a Visiting Scholar at Franeois-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights at Harvard University. She is a disability socio-legal scholar currently focused on research at intersections of reparations, institutionalisation and violence. She is the author of Disability, CrminalJusace and Law (Routledge 2020) and co-editor of Sites of Conscience: Place, Memoryand the Project ofDeinsatuionahzation (UBC Press 2024), The Legacies of Institutionalisation: Disability, Law and Policy in the Deinstiamonalised' Community (Hart 2020), and Normalcy and Disability: Intersections Among Nonms, Law, and Culture (Routledge 2018). Kate Swaffer is a PhD Candidate at the School of Justice and Society, Sociology, University of South Australia and an Honorary Associate Fellow at the Faculty of Science, Medicine & Health, School of Nursing, University of Wollongong. She is Co- founder of Dementia Alliance Intemational.

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