Now available in paperback! A diagnosis of dementia changes the ways people engage with each other – for those living with dementia, as well their families, caregivers, friends, health professionals, neighbours, shopkeepers and the community. This innovative volume brings together an interdisciplinary group of researchers and practitioners to focus on dementia as lived experience. It foregrounds dementia’s social, moral, political and economic dimensions, investigating the challenges of reframing the dementia experience for all involved.
Key Features
- Critical Conversations: Engages in discussions around personhood and social value.
- Social Contexts: Examines the wider social contexts within which dementia care takes place.
- Call for Change: Advocates for social change and inspiration from the growing movement for relational care.
- Comprehensive Insight: Highlights the social and relational change required to enhance life for those with dementia and those who care for them.
Additional Information
Medical understandings, necessary as they are, provide no insights into how we may all live good lives with dementia. Part I critiques the stigmas, the negativity, language and fears often associated with a dementia diagnosis, challenging debilitating representations and examining ways to tackle these. Part II examines proactive practices that can support better long-term outcomes for those living with dementia. Part III looks at the relational aspects of dementia care, acknowledging and going beyond the notion of person-centred care. Dementia as Social Experience is important reading for all those people who, in various ways, are living with dementia, as well as for those working in this area as clinicians, researchers and carers.
