A paper on "Supporting continued work under the UNCRPD – views of employees living with mild cognitive impairment or early onset dementia" was published in the International Journal of Discrimination and the Law, in August 2022. 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 impairment (MCI) or early onset dementia (EOD) can be supported. The study, which makes use of empirical data collected in Finland, Sweden and Canada, sought to give a voice to people living with MCI or EOD, sharing their experiential knowledge and exploring it in the context of equality rights-related tools provided by the UN Convention on the Rights of the Persons with Disabilities (UN CRPD). The results illustrate that there are effective tools available that remove barriers to participation, and support continued work of employees living with cognitive impairments, at least while impairments are mild. Ideally, flexibility and solidarity in the workplace automatically eliminates the effects of individual impairment, the authors comment, however, they continue, cognitive impairments are often such that individual accommodations are needed, along with general accessibility measures. Supporting continued work expands the freedom to continue meaningful work in the preferred manner and offers people the means to gain a livelihood and participate in society as members of the work community, on an equal basis with others. One of the co-authors of the article is Anna Mäki-Petäjä-Leinonen from the University of Eastern Finland, who has contributed to a lot of Alzheimer Europe's work on legislation, in the past, and who has participated in a number of our ethics working groups, more recently. Read the full paper, here: https://doi.org/10.1177/13582291221115266
