Matilda Carter is a Lecturer in Applied Ethics at the University of Leeds, with a decade of experience in professional social care. She has published in leading journals like Analytic Philosophy and the Hastings Center Report, and was the 2021–2022 winner of the University College London Department of Political Science Best Doctoral Thesis Award.

• 1. Introduction; 2. Diagnosing the injustices faced by people living with dementia; 3. Severe cognitive disability and the relationship between moral and social equality; 4. Determining the authentic interests of people living with dementia: the case of advance directives; 5. The indirect-first approach: towards non-dominating dementia care; 6. The imperative of professional dementia care; 7. Can the secure dementia unit be justified? building egalitarian dementia care infrastructure; 8. Dementia, equality, and the law of the United Kingdom; 9. Dementia and the problem of speaking for others; 10. Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.