Rethinking Dementia, 9780645588118
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Dementia: It’s not just an individual struggle, it’s a relational shift.

Rethinking Dementia

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  • Paperback

    296 pages

  • Release Date

    31 October 2024

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Summary

Rethinking Dementia: A Relational Approach to Care

Written by a palliative care physician, this book challenges conventional understandings of dementia by reframing it as a condition that affects entire networks of individuals, not just those diagnosed. It urges us to consider dementia as a process of change within a social and relational system.

Dementia challenges deeply held values of autonomy, individualism, independence, consistency, and ideas of personhood. Rather than…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780645588118
ISBN-10:0645588113
Author:Michael Chapman, Mirranda Burton
Publisher:Palaver Books
Imprint:Palaver Books
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:296
Release Date:31 October 2024
Weight:484g
Dimensions:22mm x 342mm x 227mm
About The Author

Michael Chapman

Dr Michael Chapman is a Palliative Care Physician and the Director of Palliative Care at Canberra Hospital. His research into the ethics and practice of end of life care has been widely published. Born in Aotearoa/New Zealand, Mirranda is an artist living and working on Wurundjeri country/Melbourne, Australia. Graduating from an Advanced Diploma of Visual Arts (North Adelaide School of Art, 1995) and a Bachelor of Multimedia Design (Swinburne University of Technology, 2005), she has more than twenty years of experience working between fine arts, printmaking, independent and commercial animation, education, illustration and graphic story telling. Teaching herself stop motion animation with a Super 8 camera in 1996 led to her animated creations and music video work screening in animation festivals throughout Europe and the Asia–Pacific. She worked as an ‘inbetweener’ at DisneyToon Studios Australia and continues to freelance in 2D animation production.

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