Dementia Studies
A Social Science Perspective
- Anthea Innes - University of Stirling, UK
What is dementia? How should we organize dementia care? This comprehensive book critically examines the main approaches to understanding dementia—bio-medical, social-psychological, and socio-gerontological—and the main principles and ideologies of care.
Key Features
- Provides clarity on the gap between the utopian aspirations of care and the reality of care
- Opens up a series of questions about knowledge and treatment of dementia
- Argues for a transition from positions that place emphasis upon the individual or particular care services to the social, cultural, and economic context
Lively, informative and challenging, the book will be of interest to students of nursing, sociology of health & illness, social work and social gerontology.
This book is a very useful and informative text, that charts the progress of dementia studies from its early days through to current developments. It examines how we know what we know about dementia, and includes trends and paradigm shifts within dementia research. I am not adopting this book for my year 1 undergrad course; however I am recommending it to my university library as a supplemental book suitable for more advanced students. This book is suitable for stage 3 students and postgrads interested in the development of dementia studies as it does require some previous knowledge of social science theory and methodology.
This is a very good text which puts dementia care within a wider social and political context. Extremely well researched and insightful. Especially appreciated is the realistic approach to the gap between the care we desire to give and that which we end dup giving.
This book provides students with relevant information essential for studying older adults mental health. We currently have no other book which successfully combines biological, social and psychological factors whilst drawing uopon policy, law and cross cultural ideals. Useful for an overall viewpoint!
