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Challenges of ethical and legal responsibilities when technologies' uses and users change: social networking sites, decision-making capacity and dementia

Ethicolegal guidance on the implications of social media technologies’ usage in contexts where users have impaired capacity to understand and consent to sharing personal information online is very limited. This paper offers an important interdisciplinary contribution which addresses a gap in legal, commercial and ethical frameworks which would assist vulnerable adults with dementia and their carers in the use of online technologies. Issues raised in the paper are feeding directly into our current collaborative project with the Alzheimer’s Society and Graham Care homes (Niki Swift, Day Support Manager, niki.swift@alzheimers.org.uk) on the use of technology to support people with dementia.