Dementia as social experience: valuing life and care

A diagnosis of dementia changes the ways people engage with each other - for those with dementia, as well their families, caregivers, friends, health professionals, neighbours, shopkeepers and the community. Medical understandings, necessary as they are, provide no insights into how we may all live...

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Other Authors: Macdonald, Gaynor 1948- (Editor), Mears, Jane (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Abingdon, Oxon Routledge 2019
Series:Routledge studies in the sociology of health and illness
Routledge studies in the sociology of health and illness
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Summary:A diagnosis of dementia changes the ways people engage with each other - for those with dementia, as well their families, caregivers, friends, health professionals, neighbours, shopkeepers and the community. Medical understandings, necessary as they are, provide no insights into how we may all live good lives with dementia. 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
Item Description:Available from some providers with title: Social reframing of dementia
Physical Description:1 online resource (xii, 222 pages .)
ISBN:9781351241816
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