A pilot randomised controlled trial to compare changes in quality of life for participants with early diagnosis dementia who attend a Living Well with Dementia group compared to waiting-list control (2015)
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© 2014 Taylor and Francis. Objectives: The aim of this paper is to report a pilot study in which participants who had recently received a diagnosis of dementia were randomised to either a 10-week group intervention or a waiting-list control.Method: M... Read More about A pilot randomised controlled trial to compare changes in quality of life for participants with early diagnosis dementia who attend a Living Well with Dementia group compared to waiting-list control.

The assessment of dementia in primary care (2015)
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Dementia is an irreversible and progressive condition characterized by a global deterioration of a person’s cognitive abilities. With an ageing population, the number of people diagnosed with dementia is expected to rise both in the UK and abroad. Co... Read More about The assessment of dementia in primary care.

An exploration into the relationships people with dementia have with physical objects: An ethnographic study (2013)
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In recent years there has been increasing interest in how different aspects of object relations theory might apply to dementia. While attachment theory in dementia has been well studied, there have been no systematic investigations of the way in whic... Read More about An exploration into the relationships people with dementia have with physical objects: An ethnographic study.

Simulated presence therapy, attachment and separation amongst people with dementia (2007)
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This article examines the impact of Simulated Presence Therapy (SPT) on the behaviour of six people with moderate or severe levels of dementia. Twenty-one sessions involving both SPT and a control condition (usual care) were carried out. SPT interven... Read More about Simulated presence therapy, attachment and separation amongst people with dementia.

Shame and avoidance: Issues of remembering and forgetting with people with dementia (2005)
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Group psychotherapy and people with dementia (2003)
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Psychotherapy and counselling approaches are being used increasingly with people with dementia, but there has been little structured research into the effectiveness of such work. This research reports findings from the evaluation of six, ten-week lon... Read More about Group psychotherapy and people with dementia.

Mental Health and Identity: The Evaluation of a Drop-in Centre (2002)
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This paper is based on interviews with users of a drop-in centre run by a voluntary group. Using a grounded theory approach the paper argues that individuals' use of the drop-in is linked to the discursive strategies that they have developed to cope... Read More about Mental Health and Identity: The Evaluation of a Drop-in Centre.

Involving people who have dementia in the evaluation of services: A review (2000)
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Government policy and good practice dictate that health and other care services should routinely involve service users in the evaluation of the services that they receive. While the carers of people with dementia have been involved in this process re... Read More about Involving people who have dementia in the evaluation of services: A review.

Brains, minds and selves: Changing conceptions of the losses involved in dementia (1999)
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Until the last 10 years or so, dementia research had been dominated by the psychiatric or medical approach to dementia. However, increasing numbers of new psychological and social psychological approaches to dementia have begun to emerge. Consequentl... Read More about Brains, minds and selves: Changing conceptions of the losses involved in dementia.

Psychotherapeutic work with people with dementia: A review of the literature (1998)
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Until recently psychotherapy and counselling techniques have rarely been used with people with dementia. However, the change in emphasis within dementia care towards a person-centred approach has meant that there is a growing clinical interest in the... Read More about Psychotherapeutic work with people with dementia: A review of the literature.

Inhabitants of a lost kingdom: A model of the subjective experiences of dementia (1997)
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Stories and metaphors: Talking about the past in a psychotherapy group for people with dementia (1996)
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Social constructionist approaches to the talk of older adults diagnosed as suffering from a dementing illness have emphasised the importance of analysing such talk in terms of its social function. Drawing on this work together with the increasing cli... Read More about Stories and metaphors: Talking about the past in a psychotherapy group for people with dementia.

The Accounts of Special Education Leavers (1994)
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There has been comparatively little analysis of the ways in which pupils within special education describe themselves. This paper looks at the linguistic repertoires that leavers from special education in Central Scotland drew upon in order to accoun... Read More about The Accounts of Special Education Leavers.