Policy Press Dementia and Place: Practices, Experiences and Connections

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. Review "Neighbourhoods can be places to connect people with dementia to a wider community, with opportunities to meet and to be met. This potential to enrich the social health of people with dementia is convincingly demonstrated in this insightful book." Myrra Vernooij-Dassen, Radboud University Medical Center, the Netherlands"This book highlights not only the voices of the people who the dementia-inclusive initiatives most impact, it emphasises the urgent need for changes to ensure equal access and inclusion." Kate Swaffer, Dementia Alliance International About the Author 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.