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Author:   Paul Higgs (University College, London) ,  Chris Gilleard
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Imprint:   Wiley-Blackwell
Dimensions:   Width: 15.00cm , Height: 0.50cm , Length: 22.60cm
Weight:   0.295kg
ISBN:  

9781119397878

ISBN 10:   1119397871
Pages:   168
Publication Date:   08 September 2017
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Notes on contributors vii 1 Ageing, dementia and the social mind: past, present and future perspectives 1 Paul Higgs and Chris Gilleard 2 Relational citizenship: supporting embodied selfhood and relationality in dementia care 7 Pia Kontos, Karen-Lee Miller and Alexis P. Kontos 3 Shifting dementia discourses from deficit to active citizenship 24 Linda Birt, Fiona Poland, Emese Csipke and Georgina Charlesworth 4 Narrative collisions, sociocultural pressures and dementia: the relational basis of personhood reconsidered 37 Edward Tolhurst, Bernhard Weicht and Paul Kingston 5 Power, empowerment, and person-centred care: using ethnography to examine the everyday practice of unregistered dementia care staff 52 Kezia Scales, Simon Bailey, Joanne Middleton and Justine Schneider 6 Institutionalising senile dementia in 19th-century Britain 69 Emily Stella Andrews 7 Dichotomising dementia: is there another way? 83 Patricia Mc Parland, Fiona Kelly and Anthea Innes 8 When walking becomes wandering: representing the fear of the fourth age 95 Katherine Brittain, Cathrine Degnen, Grant Gibson, Claire Dickinson and Louise Robinson 9 Re-imagining dementia in the fourth age: the ironic fictions of Alice Munro 110 Marlene Goldman 10 Social class, dementia and the fourth age 128 Ian Rees Jones 11 Precarity in late life: rethinking dementia as a ‘frailed’ old age 142 Amanda Grenier, Liz Lloyd and Chris Phillipson Index 155

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Paul Higgs, PhD is Professor of the Sociology of Ageing at the UCL Faculty of Brain Sciences, UK. He holds Fellowships from the Academy of Social Sciences and the Gerontological Society of America. Chris Gilleard, PhD is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences and a Visiting Research Fellow at the Division of Psychiatry, Faculty of Brain Sciences, University College London, UK.

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