Narrative Collisions, Sociological Pressures and Dementia: The relational basis of personhood reconsidered.

TOLHURST, Edward, Weicht, Bernhard and Kingston, Paul (2017) Narrative Collisions, Sociological Pressures and Dementia: The relational basis of personhood reconsidered. In: Ageing, Dementia and The Social Mind. Sociology of Health and Illness . Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, pp. 37-51. ISBN 978-1-119-39787-8

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Personal relationships are recognised as a key contextual influence upon the experience of dementia. An exclusive focus on dementia as a state of disease and the substantial strain it places upon people’s lives can result in challenges of the condition being exacerbated and, at worst, lead to cruelty due to lack of care. As a consequence, person-centred approaches (in contrast to illness-centred) offer counterbalance by emphasising that people live their lives within interdependent relationships, which can enable people with dementia to sustain a positive personal identity.

Item Type:	Book Chapter, Section or Conference Proceeding
Additional Information:	"This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: TOLHURST, Edward, Weicht, Bernhard and Kingston, Paul (2017) Narrative Collisions, Sociological Pressures and Dementia: The relational basis of personhood reconsidered. In: Ageing, Dementia and The Social Mind. Sociology of Health and Illness . Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, pp. 37-51. ISBN 978-1-119-39787-8, which has been published in final form at https://www.wiley.com/en-us/Ageing%2C+Dementia+and+the+Social+Mind-p-9781119397878. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Self-Archiving."
Faculty:	School of Health and Social Care > Midwifery and Allied Health Professions
Depositing User:	Edward TOLHURST
Date Deposited:	15 Apr 2019 07:55
Last Modified:	24 Feb 2023 13:55
URI:	https://eprints.staffs.ac.uk/id/eprint/5495

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