Responsibility for health and care services for people with dementia is often divided
between various professionals, agencies, and authorities, causing a fragmentation of care …

Materiality has become an increasingly important topic in sociological studies of health care.
How objects support the identity of people with dementia in care homes is an emerging …

Background: Dementia has been labelled as a condition leading to 'prescribed
disengagement'which negatively affects a person's ability to remain an agentic citizen …

Background Striving to cope with day-to-day challenges is a basic human behaviour. Self-
initiated management approaches provide a resource that has yet to be discovered and …

Having opportunities to make decisions and choices regarding one's life is crucial when
living with dementia. This inter-disciplinary study draws on the concept of relational …

Background Research on the lived experience of dementia is burgeoning across the social
and health sciences. Yet, very little is still known about the experience of dementia for many …

Background: In recent years, scholars of citizenship internationally have argued that current
dominant medical and care-based understandings position people with dementia solely as …

Building on empirical data, this chapter explores the relationship between materiality and
citizenship in assisted living facilities. The notion of arrangements is mobilized to show how …

The current estimate of people living with a diagnosis of dementia in the UK is 850,000 with
over two-thirds living in the community. Supporting people to age in place is vital as formal …