Dementia and the disappearing subject
A framing analysis of drugs for dementia in UK news media
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| ID | 21258375 |
|---|---|
| Autores | Lucie Hogger (0000-0003-4669-1292, Queen Mary University of London), Deborah Swinglehurst (0000-0003-1261-9268, Queen Mary University of London), Nina Fudge (0000-0002-7161-4355, Queen Mary University of London, autor correspondente) |
| Ano | 2025 |
| Volume | 8 |
| Páginas | 100603 |
| Data de publicação | 2025-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Sim |
| Open Access | Sim |
| Tipo | ARTICLE |
| Periódico | SSM - Qualitative Research in Health (JOURNAL) |
| Identificadores do periódico | ISSN: 2667-3215 • E-ISSN: 2667-3215 |
| Editora | Elsevier BV (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1016/j.ssmqr.2025.100603 |
| OpenAlex | W4412055392 |
| Idioma | EN |
| Referências citadas | 53 |
Dementia affects 55 million people worldwide and is a global priority as governments, health services and care providers grapple with how to provide care for people with dementia and their families. In the UK, drug treatments for dementia have been available since the early 2000s. There has been significant controversy regarding the efficacy and effectiveness of pharmaceuticals. Using framing analysis, we investigated how dementia drugs were framed in UK news media between 2011 and 2018. Framing devices do discursive work in setting out what kind of problem dementia is. We show that news media framed pharmaceutical ‘cures’ for dementia in four different ways: to solve the problem of dementia for the individual; to prevent and eliminate the catastrophic ills of dementia for society; to combat the rising cost of dementia; and to mobilise political will and investment in a pharmaceutical cure. We pay particular attention to how the dominant discourse of hope constituted desired-for, imagined futures. We argue that parallel discourses on eliminating dementia and problematic ageing adopt dehumanising language and metaphors which produce an ageless pharmaceutical future in which the need to care for people with dementia, or older people more generally, is eradicated
Dementia · Disease · Media studies · News media · Sociology · Aging and Gerontology Research · Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research · History · Medicine · Psychology · Internal Medicine
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