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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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Creating Meaningful Interactions for Young Children, Older Friends, and Nursery School Practitioners within an Intergenerational Project
Intergenerational practice, where children and older adults come together for shared activities, has grown in popularity in many Western countries....
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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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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 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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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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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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A qualitative study of the impact of a dementia experiential learning project on pre-medical students: a friend for Rachel
BackgroundWith Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias affecting approximately 7 million people in the United States, comprehension of the multitude...
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Treatment of Psychological Disorders
The examples provided in this chapter are meant to illustrate various treatment methods, not to evaluate them. Although research on the outcome of...
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Medical student perceptions of mental illness: a cross-sectional transnational study in two medical schools
BackgroundDespite shifting global attitudes, mental illness remains highly stigmatised amongst practicing doctors. This has wider implications on...
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An ABER Interview: A Pedagogy of Parallax to Parallaxic Praxis
Seeing Red: A Pedagogy of Parallax won the ABER Award in 2007 and was published in the same year by Cambria Press. Norman Denzin described the work...
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A serious game for raising air pollution perception in children
Concerns about air pollution have increased recently. Currently, 94% of the world population face air pollution levels considered unsafe by the World...
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Thinking Complexity and Acting Pragmatically
As we learned in the previous chapter, complexity theory and understanding the nature of complex adaptive systems can advance the foundational...
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Learning as the Key for the 100-Year Life Society: The Experience of Policy and Practice in Japan as a Super-Aged Society
The era of 100-year life has arrived. It has already been half a century since Japanese society entered the aging phase. The average life expectancy...
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Focusing on Families
Drawing on concepts from prior research that identify the various dimensions of family systems in sha** the emerging Jewish lives of young people,...
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Dietary and smoking habits during the exam period and their effect on the academic achievement among Syrian medical students
BackgroundDietary habits are crucial for maintaining overall health and have been shown to impact academic performance. However, little research has...
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One-week multidisciplinary post-graduate palliative care training: an outcome-based program evaluation
BackgroundA multi-professional, post-graduate, one-week palliative care training program was piloted in November 2019 at the University of...
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“I’d like to let people know what we did:” values of Fukushima medical students following the Great East Japan Earthquake
BackgroundThe Great East Japan Earthquake and the resulting tsunami and nuclear disaster on March 11, 2011 have had a profound and lasting effect on...
