DEMENTIA & PLACE

Giving voice to the lived experiences of people with dementia across the globe, including Australia, Canada, Sweden and the UK, this critical and evidence-based collection engages with the realities of life for people living with dementia at home and within their neighbourhoods.

This insightful text addresses the fundamental social aspects of environment, including place attachment, belonging and connectivity. The chapters reveal the potential and expose the challenges for practitioners and researchers as dementia care shifts to a neighbourhood setting.

The unique ‘neighbourhood-centred’ perspective provides an innovative guide for policy and practice and calls for a new place-based culture of care and support in the neighbourhood.

Kirstein Rummery is Professor of Social Policy at the University of Stirling, the co-director of the Centre on Gender and Feminist Studies and a senior fellow of the Centre on Constitutional Change.

Richard Ward is Senior Lecturer in Dementia Studies in the Faculty of Applied Social Sciences at the University of Stirling.

Andrew Clark is Professor in the Directorate of Social Sciences in the School of Health and Society at the University of Salford.

Lyn Phillipson is Principal Research Fellow at the University of Wollongong.