Supporting continued work under the UNCRPD – views of employees living with mild cognitive impairment or early onset dementia
| Author | Katja Karjalainen,Mervi Issakainen,Marjo Ylhäinen,Sheida Marashi,Ann-Charlotte Nedlund,Jennifer Boger,Arlene Astell,Anna Mäki-Petäjä-Leinonen,Louise Nygård |
| DOI | http://doi.org/10.1177/13582291221115266 |
| Published date | 01 December 2022 |
| Date | 01 December 2022 |
| Subject Matter | Articles |
Article
International Journal of
Discrimination and the Law
2022, Vol. 22(4) 371–385
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Supporting continued work
employees living with mild
cognitive impairment or early
onset dementia
Katja Karjalainen
1,
*, Mervi Issakainen
2,
*, Marjo Ylh¨
ainen
1
,
Sheida Marashi
3
, Ann-Charlotte Nedlund
4
, Jennifer Boger
3,5
,
Arlene Astell
6,7,8
, Anna M¨
aki-Pet¨
aj¨
a-Leinonen
1
and
Louise Nyg˚
ard
9
Abstract
This article reports the results of a socio-legal investigation into how continued work
among people living with progressive cognitive impairments such as mild cognitive im-
pairment (MCI) or early onset dementia (EOD) can be supported. This study that makes
use of empirical data collected in Finland, Sweden and Canada seeks to give voice to
people living with MCI or EOD and set their experiential knowledge in dialogue with
equality rights related tools provided by the UN Convention on the Rights of the Persons
1
Law School, University of Eastern Finland, Joensuu, Finland
2
Department of Social Sciences, University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio, Finland
3
Deparment of System Design Engineering, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada
4
Department of Health, Medicine and Caring Sciences (HMV), Division of Society and Health, Link¨
oping
University, Link¨
oping, Sweden
5
Research Institute for Aging, Waterloo, ON, Canada
6
KITE Research Institute, University Health Network, Toronto, ON, Canada
7
Departments of Occupational Science and Occupational Therapy and Psychiatry, University of Toronto,
Toronto, ON, Canada
8
School of Psychology and Clinical Language Sciences, University of Reading, Reading, UK
9
Department of Neurobiology, Care Sciences and Society (NVS), Division of Occupational Therapy, Karolinska
Institute, Stockholm, Sweden
*Karjalainen and Issakainen contributed equally to this work.
Corresponding author:
Katja Karjalainen, Law School, University of Eastern Finland, Yliopistonkatu 2, Joensuu 80101, Finland.
Email: katja.karjalainen@uef.fi
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