When caring for people with severe Alzheimer's disease (AD), the concept of the person
being central is increasingly advocated in clinical practice and academia as an approach to …

Personhood has provided a lens for conceptualising dementia practice and research for
over ten years. It has afforded the rationale and language for improving care and for raising …

A growing body of research shows that social networks and identities have a profound
impact on mental and physical health. With such mounting evidence of the importance of …

How do we understand mental health problems in their social context? A former BMA
Medical Book of the Year award winner, this book provides a sociological analysis of major …

Dementia has been widely debated from the perspectives of biomedicine and social
psychology. This book broadens the debate to consider the experiences of men and women …

We draw on findings from a mixed‐method study of specialised red‐nosed elderclowns in a
long‐term care facility to advance a model of 'relational citizenship'for individuals with …

Dementia care practices are premised on a model of Alzheimer's disease that denies the
body an agential role in the constitution and manifestation of selfhood. As a consequence …

There is much debate in the literature as to the extent to which self and identity persist in
people with dementia. The aim of this systematic review was to examine methods currently …

Explicit in the current construction of Alzheimer's disease is the assumption that memory
impairment caused by cognitive deficiencies leads to a steady loss of selfhood. The …

We would like to thank Rachel Hazelwood, our Editorial Administrator for the Routledge
Handbook of Cultural Gerontology who showed organisation, patience and kindness …