The Dialectics of Dementia
With Particular Reference to Alzheimer's Disease
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11200525 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Tom Kitwood (University of Bradford, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1990 |
| Volume | 10 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 177-196 |
| Publication date | 1990-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Ageing and Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0144-686X • E-ISSN: 1469-1779 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0144686x00008060 |
| OpenAlex | W2153836886 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 88 |
| References cited | 5 |
A new theory of the dementing process in old age is presented in outline. Its main focus is on the dialectical interplay between neurological and social-psychological factors, with special emphasis on aspects of the latter which deprive a neurologically impaired individual of his or her personhood. The account of dementia so derived is more comprehensive and less deterministic than those which are based on the simpler versions of a ‘medical model’. Also, it opens up the way for a more personal and optimistic view of caregiving
Cognitive psychology · Dementia · Dialectic · Disease · Epistemology · Focus (optics) · Personhood · Aging and Gerontology Research · Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research · Medicine · Mental Health and Psychiatry · Philosophy · Psychology
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The Maintenance of Self-Esteem
Empathic mutual positioning in conflict transformation and reconciliation
Clown’s view as respiciō
The Cambridge Handbook of Age and Ageing
What is person-centred care in dementia?
Embodied selfhood in Alzheimer's disease
Resistance Training for Older Adults
Beyond ‘person‐centred’ care
Rights in Mind
Caregiver-Recipient Closeness and Symptom Progression in Alzheimer Disease. The Cache County Dementia Progression Study
Utilization of Self-Identity Roles for Designing Interventions for Persons With Dementia
The Fundamentals of Person-Centered Care for Individuals With Dementia
Shoot the Messenger
Legal constructions of dementia
Affective Out-World Experience via Virtual Reality for Older Adults Living with Mild Cognitive Impairments or Mild Dementia
That was just your life
Transferring from wheelchair to bed
‘Proto-conversation’ as a practice in late-stage dementia care
The meaning of “total pain” in the context of living and dying with dementia
Fourth Ageism
Development of a music intervention protocol and its effect on participant engagement
Using poetry to improve the quality of life and care for people with dementia
Dementia and Dementia Care
Including Individuals with Memory Impairment in the Research Process
Disturbances in the field’
Public perception of dementia risk in the UK
Excess disability and malignant social psychology
Listening to Older Women with Dementia
What Does it Mean to Listen to People with Dementia
Elderly people with cognitive impairment
The medicalization of dementia
Reciprocal relations
Memory, mood and dementia
Who's seeing whom
Self and other
The dementia narrative
Understanding Chinese–Canadian pathways to a diagnosis of dementia through a critical-constructionist lens
Autobiographical accounts of living with dementia
Interpreting the “hidden program” of a place
Broadening the etiological discourse on Alzheimer's disease to include trauma and posttraumatic stress disorder as psychosocial risk factors
Narratives and self-identity in later life
They're still in control enough to be in control”
Communicative intentions and liminal signs in interaction with people living with late-stage dementia
Time Past, Time Present, Time Future
Ethnographic reflections on selfhood, embodiment and Alzheimer's disease
The painterly hand
The living dead? The construction of people with Alzheimer's disease as zombies
Three Philosophies of Person‐Centred Care, From the Perspectives of Care Workers and Managers Supporting Older People
Narrative collisions, sociocultural pressures and dementia
Grief and Mourning from the Perspective of the Person with a Dementing Illness
Dementism
Essential others
‘We go for a homely feel … not the clinical dementia side’
Alzheimer’s Disease, a Shifting Paradigm in Spanish Film
Alzheimer's disease and euthanasia
Language function in Alzheimer's disease
The perspectives of people with dementia on day and respite services
Towards a Theory of Dementia Care
William’ and The Old Folks
Orally positioning persons with dementia in assessment meetings
Who speaks up for Inés Fonseca? Representing violence against vulnerable subjects and the ethics of care in fictional narrative about Alzheimer's disease
From the medicalisation of dementia to the politics of memory and identity in three Spanish documentary films
Stories and Metaphors
The épreuve of ageing with Alzheimer's disease
Supportive care for older people with dementia
Managing identity in early-stage dementia
Re-thinking and re-positioning ‘being in the moment’ within a continuum of moments
Towards a Theory of Dementia Care
The Mask of Dementia
Stereotypes, stereotype threat and ageing
Peer support for the newly diagnosed
Cognitive and social strengths of people living with dementia
Our Own Little Language
Frontotemporal dementia, sociality, and identity
Interactional perspectives on the mistreatment of older and vulnerable people in long-term care settings
Expressions of Personhood in Alzheimer's Disease
A Place like This? Stories of Dementia, Home, and the Self
Adaptação transcultural e análise da confiabilidade do Southampton Assessment of Mobility para avaliar a mobilidade de idosos brasileiros com demência
Extralinguistic communication compensates for the loss of verbal fluency
Self-identity in older persons suffering from dementia
Intact use of politeness in the discourse of Alzheimer's sufferers
Conducting Qualitative Interview Research With People With Expressive Language Difficulties
Making sense of dementia in the social world
The neuropsychiatric biopolitics of dementia and its ethnicity problem
From 'living death' to 'becoming-with
Struggling over Subjectivity
Tackling Indifference-Clowning, Dementia, and the Articulation of a Sensitive Body
| Unique citing works | 88 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2,59 |
| Citation span | 1992 - 2025 (34) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 85 |