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Webinar Talk: Relational autonomies: Rethinking the concept autonomy through intimate dementia care

Image of the webinar advert at https://www.nari.net.au/Event/seminars-in-ageing-061222. Webinar name: The limits and ethics of autonomy and choice in older people who are care-dependent. Webinar description: About the presentation This special end-of-year seminar brings together three researchers from different disciplinary backgrounds whose research draws attention to the limits and ethics of autonomy and choice in older people who require assistance with everyday personal care, particularly transgressive intimate care. The researchers present findings from their individual programs of research that illuminate cultures of care in institutional care settings that privilege practices of containment, restriction, and restraint and inadvertently undermine the autonomy of people who are care-dependent. Using continence care as an exemplar, they will argue for an ethic of care that recognises the reciprocity inherent in caregiving relationships and reframing the concept of autonomy to accommodate the needs and dependency of the care-dependent individual and upholds their dignity. Link to the recording of the webinar.

As part of visit to the National Ageing Research Institute in Melbourne, Tiina Vaittinen presented at a webinar on The limits and ethics of autonomy and choice in older people who are care-dependent, together with Professor Joan Ostaszkiewicz and Katie Featherstone.

Tiina’s presentation was titled “Relational autonomies and embodied choreographies: Rethinking the concept autonomy through intimate dementia care”, and you can watch the entire webinar here: https://www.nari.net.au/Event/seminars-in-ageing-061222.