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ABOUT THE BOOK

Traditionally, dementia has been defined primarily in terms of loss: loss of cognitive and communicative competencies, loss of identity, loss of personal relationships. People living with dementia have been portrayed as increasingly dependent on others, with their loved ones seen more as care givers than as spouses, children and relatives. However, in the last two decades this view of the person living with dementia as an ‘empty vessel’ has been increasingly challenged, and the focus has shifted from one of care to one of helping people to live with dementia.

1. INTRODUCTION: FROM EMPTY VESSELS TO ACTIVE AGENTS

2. TOARDS A PHENOMENOLOGICAL CONCEPTION OF THE SUBJECTIY OF DEMENTIA

3. DEMENTIA IN THE AGE OF MIGRATION: CROSS- CULTURAL PERSPECTIVES

4. FRAMEWORK FOR IMPROVING LIFE WITH DEMENTIA

5. PATHWAYS WITHIN DEMENTIA DIAGNOSIS

6. COMMUNICATION AND COLLABRATION IN DEMENTIA

7. STORYTELLING IN DEMENTIA: COLLABRATION ND COMMON GROUND

8. DEMENTIA AS CHRONIC ILLNESS: MAINTAINING INVOLVEMENT IN EVERYDAY LIFE

9. 'HOME IS SOMEWHERE IN-BETWEEN-PASSAGE':THE STORIES OF RELOCATION TO A RESIDENTIAL HOME BY PERSONS WITH DEMENTIA

10. SELF-HELP, MUTUAL SUPPORT AND ADVOCACY: PEERS GETTING TOGETHER