Critical Dementia Network

Societies 2017, 7, 21; doi:10.3390/soc7030021. This paper explores the potential for cultural gerontology to extend its ideas of diversity in aging experiences by opening space to rethink conceptions of successful aging futures. We propose a ‘queering’ of aging futures that disrupts the ways that expectations of a good later life and happy aging are seen… Read more »

Journal of Aging Studies, 45 (2018) 25-31. Despite person-centred approaches increasingly focusing on looking at the person in dementia instead of the pathology, the role of gender in dementia has been little explored. This article discusses how pervasive discourses on a loss of self and dementia as abject are interwoven with a de-gendering of persons… Read more »

Journal Sexualities, OnlineFirst, 2019, Doi: 10.1177/1363460719876835 Authors: Baril, Alexandre and Silverman, Marjorie There is little research at the international level to help us understand the experiences and needs of trans people living with dementia, despite population aging and the growing numbers of trans people including the first cohort of trans older adults. There is a… Read more »