Jana Mali

University of Ljubljana

Associate Prof. Dr Jana Mali has dedicated her professional career to working with older people. Her scientific research and teaching activities involve social work with older people, and people with dementia, supervision in social work, social work methods, long-term care, and action research. Her bibliography includes more than 400 scientific and professional works that have been published nationally and internationally. She has written five scientific monographs in which she deals with institutional care for older people, long-term care, and social work with people with dementia. She is Vice Dean for Research, Development, and Doctoral Studies and Head of Chair of Long-Term Care at the Faculty of Social Work, the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia.

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We are often confronted with unknown events that plunge us into ignorance, unpredictability, and various hardships. In such situations, it is essential how fundamental human values and rights such as dignity, freedom, equality, and solidarity are protected. Ensuring human rights in contemporary society is a complex area described in this book from the perspective of conceptualising and defining human rights, institutional responses, and practices to protect human rights, ensuring social justice and equality in contemporary society. The book is a compilation of interdisciplinary and international experiences in researching human rights, responding to human rights violations, and ensuring the enforcement of rights at the level of the daily lives of individuals, communities, and society as a whole.

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Human Rights in Contemporary Society

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The Possibilities for Human-Rights-Based Approach in Long-Term Care for People with Dementia in Slovenia

By Jana Mali

The number of people with dementia is increasing, triggering a number of innovations in the organisation of long-term care. Modern concepts of care for people with dementia put their rights and active participation in care at the forefront. In this paper, we highlight the relevance of this perspective in Slovenia, where the institutional care dominates long-term care to date. Long-term care for people with dementia should be anti-discriminatory and against any kind of contempt, exclusion, labelling and stigmatisation. The organisation of institutional care for people with dementia alone will not be able to meet these objectives, therefore, we conduct a research with the method of rapid needs and services assessment to identify the practices of formal and informal care providers in implementing a ‘human-based approach’. The results of research manifest that there is a need to regulate respect for the fundamental human rights of people with dementia by (1) giving them equal access to medical treatment and early diagnosis, (2) by increasing the availability of care tailored to their needs and (3) by enabling them to exercise their right to live in the community. The rights of people with dementia to make free, autonomous and participatory decisions can serve as a model.

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Human Rights in Contemporary Society

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