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Dementia as Social Experience - Valuing Life and Care (Paperback) Loot Price: R1,377
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Dementia as Social Experience - Valuing Life and Care (Paperback): Gaynor MacDonald, Jane Mears

Dementia as Social Experience - Valuing Life and Care (Paperback)

Gaynor MacDonald, Jane Mears

Series: Routledge Studies in the Sociology of Health and Illness

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A diagnosis of dementia changes the ways people engage with each other - for those living with dementia, as well their families, caregivers, friends, health professionals, neighbours, shopkeepers and the community. Medical understandings, necessary as they are, provide no insights into how we may all live good lives with dementia. This innovative volume brings together an interdisciplinary group of researchers and practitioners to focus on dementia as lived experience. It foregrounds dementia's social, moral, political and economic dimensions, investigating the challenges of reframing the dementia experience for all involved. Part I critiques the stigmas, the negativity, language and fears often associated with a dementia diagnosis, challenging debilitating representations and examining ways to tackle these. Part II examines proactive practices that can support better long-term outcomes for those living with dementia. Part III looks at the relational aspects of dementia care, acknowledging and going beyond the notion of person-centred care. Collectively, these contributions highlight the social and relational change required to enhance life for those with dementia and those who care for them. Engaging in a critical conversation around personhood and social value, this book examines the wider social contexts within which dementia care takes place. It calls for social change, and looks for inspiration to the growing movement for relational care and the caring society. Dementia as Social Experience is important reading for all those people who, in various ways, are living with dementia, as well as for those working in this area as clinicians, researcher and carers.

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Imprint: Routledge
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Series: Routledge Studies in the Sociology of Health and Illness
Release date: November 2019
First published: 2019
Editors: Gaynor MacDonald • Jane Mears
Dimensions: 234 x 156 x 19mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback
Pages: 234
ISBN-13: 978-0-367-90264-3
Categories: Books > Medicine > Clinical & internal medicine > Neurology & clinical neurophysiology
Books > Science & Mathematics > Biology, life sciences > Human biology & related topics > Medical anthropology
Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social issues > Illness & addiction: social aspects > General
Books > Medicine > General issues > Public health & preventive medicine > Personal & public health > General
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LSN: 0-367-90264-8
Barcode: 9780367902643

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