Posted: February 16, 2022
The Bucket List and More: Exploring Care Practices in an Australian Aged Care Facility Through a “Narra-theatrical” Lens
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Posted: December 7, 2021
Separate and Unequal: A Time to Reimagine Dementia
Launched amid the COVID-19 pandemic, Reimagining Dementia: A Creative Coalition for Justice is committed to shifting the culture of dementia care from centralized control, safety, isolation, and punitive interventions to a culture of inclusion, creativity, justice, and respect. “Drawing on the emancipatory power of the imagination with the arts (e.g., theatre, improvisation, music), and grounded… Read more »
Posted: November 22, 2021
The Neuropsychiatric Biopolitics of Dementia and its Ethnicity Problem
Awareness and Advocacy, Dementia and Communities, Dementia and Culture, Knowledge Exchange, Social Care
Abstract Sociological analyses of dementia have long drawn on critiques of medicalisation and the medical model. This approach fails to account for late 20th/early 21st century expansion of neuropsychiatric biopolitics, wherein a more subtle and pervasive (self-)governance of health, illness, and life itself is at stake. Since the 1970s, new neuropsychiatric imaginings of dementia have… Read more »
Posted: November 22, 2021
Black knowledges matter: How the suppression of non-white understandings of dementia harms us all and how we can combat it
Awareness and Advocacy, Dementia and Communities, Dementia and Culture, Knowledge Exchange, Research
Open access paper at: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/1467-9566.13280
Posted: November 22, 2021
Positioning ethnicity in dementia awareness research: does the use of senility risk ascribing racialised knowledge deficits to minority groups?
Awareness and Advocacy, Dementia and Communities, Dementia and Culture, Knowledge Exchange, Research
Abstract Over recent decades, the importance of increasing dementia awareness has been promoted by charities, researchers and governments. In response, a large body of research has emerged that evaluates the awareness of different populations. One such population are minority ethnic communities. Associated studies typically conclude that minority ethnic groups have a poor awareness of dementia… Read more »
