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Translating ‘dementia friends’ programme to undergraduate medical and nursing practice: a qualitative exploration
IntroductionDementia awareness is a key priority of medical and nursing pre-registration education. The ‘dementia friends’ programme is an...
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Evaluation of a dementia awareness game for health professions students in Northern Ireland: a pre-/post-test study
BackgroundDementia is a prevalent global health issue, necessitating comprehensive education for healthcare practitioners and students. Nursing and...
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Fourth Age Learning for Persons Living with Dementia
This chapter focuses upon that interface between lifelong learning and older persons living with dementia (PLWD). Reviewing the area of fourth age...
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The design and implementation of a novel music-based curriculum for dementia care professionals: The experience of SOUND in Italy, Portugal and Romania
BackgroundThe positive effects of active and passive music activities on older people with dementia are well and largely documented by the...
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Including the Marginalised: Engaging People with Dementia and the Elderly in Technology-Based Participatory Citizen Storytelling
In a prescriptive, top-down approach to healthcare development and configuration the narrative of the system can dominate the stories of the...
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Fourth Age Learning for Persons Living with Dementia
This chapter focuses upon that interface between lifelong learning and older persons living with dementia (PLWD). Reviewing the area of fourth age...
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The effect of multimodal comprehensive care methodology training on oral health care professionals’ empathy for patients with dementia
BackgroundThe prevalence of oral diseases in people with dementia has increased, and patients with dementia have worse oral health than people...
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Barriers and facilitators to implementing a longitudinal dementia education programme into undergraduate healthcare curricula: a qualitative study
BackgroundAs the numbers of people with dementia worldwide rises, there is a need for improved knowledge and awareness about the condition across the...
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Explaining Dementia and Memory Loss to Young Children in Developmentally Appropriate Ways
Understanding and co** with dementia and memory loss in a grandparent, relative, friend, or neighbor can be difficult for the entire family but may...
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A comparative study of dementia knowledge, attitudes and care approach among Chinese nursing and medical students
BackgroundDementia care requires inter-disciplinary collaboration starting from formal health professional education. Yet, little is known about how...
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Lifelong Learning and Dementia A Posthumanist Perspective
This book explores the potential for lifelong learning in dementia. A growing social issue, dementia has previously been understood as a wasteland...
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Introduction to Dementia and Lifelong Learning
In this chapter we introduce the key arguments of this book. First, a posthumanistposthumanist perspective helps understand and value the lives of...
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A Posthumanist Perspective on Dementia
This chapter introduces those posthuman ideas that we have found most useful in our research with people with dementiadementia. These include: ‘thing...
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Intergenerational Learning and Dementia
This chapter focuses on the learninglearning that happens in an intergenerational music and arts interventionintergenerational music and arts...
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Perceptions and attitudes towards dementia among university students in Malaysia
BackgroundOne of the major challenges worldwide is the stigma associated with dementia. There is limited dementia awareness within Malaysian...
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Dementia and the Post-verbal
In this chapter we use the posthumanistposthumanist perspective introduced in Chap. 2 to work with a range of ‘data events’ from the Beyond Words...
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Preferences of nursing and medical students for working with older adults and people with dementia: a systematic review
BackgroundA current issue in workforce planning is ensuring healthcare professionals are both competent and willing to work with older adults with...
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Challenging the Narrative of Decline: An Intergenerational Creative Community of Care
This chapter explores how the visual and performing arts offer positive intergenerational interactions for those with physical and cognitive...
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Educating students while recruiting underrepresented populations for Alzheimer’s disease research: the Student Ambassador Program
BackgroundIncreasing numbers of patients with Alzheimer’s Disease and related disorders (ADRD) necessitates increasing numbers of clinicians to care...
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Factors associated with successful dementia education for practitioners in primary care: an in-depth case study
BackgroundWith increasing numbers of people in the UK living with dementia, the provision of good quality person-centred care that meets the often...