It is essential to understand the experience of living with dementia from the perspective of
the person with dementia so that services can be appropriately constructed. This review …

In contemporary society dementia is socially, culturally, and professionally constructed as an
older person's disease. And although the formal definition of dementia has changed over …

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The past few decades have seen major changes in scientific views about dementia
(Ballenger, 2006). Dementia was first viewed as a sign of normal ageing accompanied by an …

Dementia presents challenges to all those working in health and social care. It is a
progressive disease that affects the person with dementia, their families and friends, and the …

Background: One common finding in analyses of health systems with respect to dementia is
that there is a “diagnosis gap” in dementia with less than a half of those with dementia ever …

Aim Developing strategies to ensure the safe participation of people with dementia in
research is critical to support their wider inclusion in research and to advance knowledge in …

Systematic approaches are essential when adapting interventions, so the adapted
intervention is feasible, acceptable, and holds promise for positive outcomes in the new …

Purpose To examine how people (< 65 years) with young-onset dementia (YOD) express
awareness of dementia and how they seem to handle awareness as a strategy to preserve …

People with a diagnosis of dementia have often been the subjects of qualitative research; by
contrast, this article sets out to reflect on the positioning of people living with dementia in …