Dementia as cultural metaphor

H Zeilig - Encyclopedia of Gerontology and Population Aging, 2022 - Springer
D. Gu, ME Dupre (eds.), Encyclopedia of Gerontology and Population Aging, https://doi.
org/10.1007/978-3-030-22009-9 of old and oldest-old people in high-income countries. This …

Dementia worry: A psychological examination of an unexplored phenomenon

EM Kessler, CE Bowen, M Baer, L Froelich… - European Journal of …, 2012 - Springer
According to recent surveys, dementia worry (DW) is a widespread phenomenon in mid-life
and old age, at least in Western populations. DW has been shown to be only loosely related …

The living dead? The construction of people with Alzheimer's disease as zombies

SM Behuniak - Ageing & Society, 2011 - cambridge.org
In the literature on Alzheimer's disease (AD), scholars have noted how both the disease and
the people who are diagnosed as having it have been stigmatised. I argue here that the AD …

Theories of international politics and zombies: Revived edition

DW Drezner - 2014 - torrossa.com
Fifteen years ago, on a cross-country drive, I stopped to visit Graceland. By the time my tour
hit the Jungle Room, it was obvious that the thirty-odd people walking through Elvis …

Making sense of nonsense: experiences of mild cognitive impairment

RL Beard, TM Neary - Sociology of health & illness, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a stigmatised condition popularly assumed to be a death
sentence for diagnosed individuals. Consequently, people with AD are often deemed …

[HTML][HTML] Co-creativity, well-being and agency: A case study analysis of a co-creative arts group for people with dementia

H Zeilig, V Tischler, M van der Byl Williams, J West… - Journal of aging …, 2019 - Elsevier
At the heart of this paper is an exploration of artistic co-creativity involving people with
dementia and their partners. Co-creativity promotes a relational approach to creativity which …

Capacity for decision-making in Alzheimer's disease: selfhood, positioning and semiotic people

SR Sabat - Australian & New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, 2005 - journals.sagepub.com
The aim of this article is to explore some of the ethical issues surrounding the assessment
and determination of capacity of people with dementia in light of their meaning-making …

[图书][B] Thinking through dementia

JC Hughes - 2011 - books.google.com
With a rapidly expanding elderly population, there has been a marked increase in the
incidence of dementia, and this dreadful, debilitating illness now affects-directly or indirectly …

The relative contributions of disease label and disease prognosis to Alzheimer's stigma: a vignette-based experiment

R Johnson, K Harkins, M Cary, P Sankar… - Social Science & …, 2015 - Elsevier
Abstract Background The classification of Alzheimer's disease is undergoing a significant
transformation. Researchers have created the category of “preclinical Alzheimer's,” …

A place like this? Stories of dementia, home, and the self

A Varley - Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 2008 - journals.sagepub.com
The connections between home and the self have been the subject of debate in recent
years. As a metaphor for a bounded and stable identity, the ideal of home is regarded as …