(Re)situating Dementia: Philosophy, Biomedicine, Politics, Society.

Joanna Elizabeth Latimer

(Re)situating Dementia: Philosophy, Biomedicine, Politics, Society.

Sociology

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Abstract

In this paper I examine how dementia is being co-fabricated by biomedicine, culture, and the politics of health and care. I reflect on what is good here as well as what is problematic in terms of how people and their families as well as communities and health and social care practitioners experience and approach dementia. I then move on to thinking about how alternative imaginaries can/are refabricating dementia and consider their implications for the future of dementia biomedicine and care.
I am proposing a sensibility that can hold and keep, even embrace and be affected by the being and materiality of persons with dementia alongside finding ways to prevent, manage, cure, contain, mediate and modify the effects of dementia without cancelling people with dementia as persons. Most of my thinking here is based on my work on ageing and the supposed proliferation of people experiencing dementia in all its many different guises, although dementia proposed as thing in itself is problematic.

Original language	English
Number of pages	17
Publication status	Unpublished - 21 Nov 2024
Event	Dementia Lifeworlds - University College Cord, Cork, Ireland Duration: 21 Nov 2024 → 21 Nov 2024 https://www.ucc.ie/en/iss21/researchprojects/researchprojects/dementialifeworlds/

Workshop

Workshop	Dementia Lifeworlds
Country/Territory	Ireland
City	Cork
Period	21/11/24 → 21/11/24
Internet address	https://www.ucc.ie/en/iss21/researchprojects/researchprojects/dementialifeworlds/

Keywords

dementia, Alzheimer's Disease, stigma, ageing
personhood
Critical discourse analysis; socio-political issues

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