News from BDG
Dawn Brooker reports on recent appointments and developments at Bradford Dementia Group Author/s: Dawn Brooker For the full article please see the PDF download linked to the right. The full JDC archive is available if you subscribe....
Issue: November/December 2003
Exploring the galleries of the mind
Artist Becky Shaw describes work which explores whether two people, one a person with dementia, the other a contemporary artist, could share any common visual language Author/s: Becky Shaw For the full article please see the PDF download linked to the right. The full JDC archive is available if you subscribe....
Rights and Wrongs
Editorial Comment Author/s: Alastair Macdonald For the full article please see the PDF download linked to the right. The full JDC archive is available if you subscribe....
Dementia described from the inside
In the first of two articles exploring accounts of dementia by people with direct experience of the condition, John Killick looks at two books of very different kinds, both written by men with a diagnosis of early onset Alzheimer’s disease. Author/s: John Killick For the full article please see the PDF download linked to the...
Inter-rater reliability in Dementia Care Mapping
Claire Surr and Eva Bonde Neilsen discuss the important issue of inter-rater reliability when conducting Dementia Care Mapping evaluations. They set out a new format for comparing DCM data in a slightly different way which makes it easier to identify where discrepancies lie. Author/s: Claire Surr, Eva Bonde Nielsen For the full article please see...
Survey address improving support for family carers
Author/s: Bev Chapman, Maria Koskelainen For the full article please see the PDF download linked to the right. The full JDC archive is available if you subscribe....
A new line of attack on memory loss
By Professor Stephen Rose Author/s: Stephen Rose For the full article please see the PDF download linked to the right. The full JDC archive is available if you subscribe....
Sheltered housing and people with dementia
Author/s: Simon Evans For the full article please see the PDF download linked to the right. The full JDC archive is available if you subscribe....
Focus on the change agent
Christian Muller Hergl describes a radically different system of dementia care training which involves whole teams and managers in the process of change Author/s: Christian Muller Hergl For the full article please see the PDF download linked to the right. The full JDC archive is available if you subscribe....
Not just because we can do it
Mary Marshall makes a plea for further debate on the ethical issues surrounding use of technology in dementia care Author/s: Mary Marshall For the full article please see the PDF download linked to the right. The full JDC archive is available if you subscribe....