1st Edition

Life at Home for People with a Dementia

By Ruth Bartlett, Tula Brannelly Copyright 2019
154 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

154 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

154 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Life at Home for People with a Dementia provides an evidence-based and readable account of improving life at home for people with a dementia and their families. There are estimated to be 47 million people with a dementia worldwide, the majority of whom will live, or want to live, in their own home. Yet there is a major shortcoming in available knowledge on what life is like for people with a... Read more

List of figures; List of tables; Foreword – a poem; Foreword; Acknowledgements; Chapter 1: Introduction; Part One: Understanding Life at Home; Chapter 2: Citizenships: The diversity of people living at home; Chapter 3: Enabling life at home; Chapter 4: Rethinking self-management and dementia; Part Two: Towards Social Justice; Chapter 5: Ethics and care for people with a dementia at home; Chapter 6: Technological enhanced care and citizenship; Chapter 7: Sharing responsibilities; Chapter 8: Care Manifesto; Index

Biography

Ruth Bartlett is an Associate Professor in the School of Health Sciences, University of Southampton, UK, and Director of the University’s Dementia Care Doctoral Training Centre. Ruth’s research interests are cross-disciplinary and related to people with a dementia, health activism, ageing and participatory research methods, including diary method. Ruth has published academic work and led social research studies in these areas, including most recently a project funded by the Alzheimer’s Society on the use of GPS location technologies by people with a dementia and their families.

Tula Brannelly is a Lecturer in the School of Health and Social Sciences at Bournemouth University, UK. Tula has a longstanding interest in the experiences of people with a dementia, and has spent many years in research, education and practice. Tula’s interest is in the impacts of health and social policy and is informed by an ethics of care. Tula is interested to understand more about how citizenship and care are facilitated with people with a dementia.

‘This is an exciting, innovative and hugely informative book that is not afraid to face up to the symbolism of home and its place in the everyday lives of people with dementia and their families’. - Professor John Keady, The University of Manchester, UK