Dementia and Place: Practices, Experiences and Connections
Richard Ward, Andrew Clark, and Lyn Phillipson
Abstract
This book engages with the realities of life for people living with dementia at home and within their neighbourhoods while giving voices to the lived experiences of people with dementia across the globe, including Australia, Canada, Sweden and the United Kingdom. Moreover, the voices highlight the urgent need for changes to ensure equal access and inclusion in neighbourhoods. Neighbourhoods, then, become places of connection for people with dementia to wider communities and opportunities. The book also addresses the fundamental social aspects of the environment such as place attachment, belong ... More
This book engages with the realities of life for people living with dementia at home and within their neighbourhoods while giving voices to the lived experiences of people with dementia across the globe, including Australia, Canada, Sweden and the United Kingdom. Moreover, the voices highlight the urgent need for changes to ensure equal access and inclusion in neighbourhoods. Neighbourhoods, then, become places of connection for people with dementia to wider communities and opportunities. The book also addresses the fundamental social aspects of the environment such as place attachment, belonging and connectivity. In an effort to help practitioners and researchers, the critical and evidence-based collection reveals the potential and challenges of dementia care shifting to a neighbourhood setting. Thus, the neighbourhood-centred perspective provides an innovative guide for policy and practice and calls for a new place-based culture of care and support in the neighbourhood.
Keywords:
dementia,
neighbourhood,
place attachment,
environment,
dementia care,
community,
belonging,
connectivity,
inclusions
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2021 |
Print ISBN-13: 9781447349006 |
| Published to Policy Press Scholarship Online: May 2022 |
DOI:10.1332/policypress/9781447349006.001.0001 |
Authors
Affiliations are at time of print publication.
Richard Ward, editor
University of Stirling
Andrew Clark, editor
University of Salford
Lyn Phillipson, editor
University of Wollongong
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