Loneliness and depression are serious mental health concerns across the spectrum of
residential care, from nursing homes to assisted and retirement living. Psychosocial care …

In this review, we consider how the onset and progression of dementia can disrupt one's
sense of self, and propose that music is an ideal tool for alleviating this distressing symptom …

The original Dementia Reconsidered: The Person Comes First by Tom Kitwood was
published by Open University Press in 1997. It was a seminal text in the field of dementia …

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 affects> 50 million worldwide, causing progressive cognitive and physical
disabilities. Its caregiving burden falls largely onto informal caregivers, who experience their …

Healthcare literature, public discourse, and policy documents continue to represent persons
with dementia as “doomed” and “socially dead.” This tragedy meta-narrative produces and …

Elder-clowns are a recent innovation in arts-based approaches to person-centred dementia
care. They use improvisation, humour, and empathy, as well as song, dance, and music. We …

There is little research at the international level to help us understand the experiences and
needs of trans people living with dementia, despite population aging and the growing …

Abstract Purpose of Review Self-awareness, the capacity of becoming the object of one's
own awareness, has been a frontier of knowledge, but only recently scientific approaches to …

How can we study significant cognitive differences within social groups anthropologically?
Attempting to do so challenges some of the discipline's most cherished methodological …