Dementia as social experience: valuing life and care

A diagnosis of dementia changes the ways people engage with each other - for those 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.