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Insights Series (2): Dementia, Care And Covid-19:
A New Era, A New Approach? The emergence of Covid-19 and the global public health response has sent shockwaves across human and more-than-human worlds. In this article, three members of the Multi-Species Dementia International Research Network share their reflections on Covid-19; including how it is affecting their own research, the lives of people with dementia…
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Insights Series (1): Seeing Multi-Species Dementia Care in Action
By Dr Anna Jack-Waugh In August 2019 myself and Julie Garton gained funding from the General Nursing Council for Scotland, and we joined by Mandy Cowan from Alzheimer Scotland for a study tour to the Netherlands to visit Green Care Farms. Green Care Farms for people with dementia are small home-like settings with engagement with…
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Dementia: Towards A Multi-Species Approach
The ‘animal turn’ across the humanities & social sciences is leading to non-human animals being increasingly incorporated within disciplines previously considered to the exclusive domains of humans; yet dementia studies has been somewhat slow (and arguably somewhat resistant) to explore what Bryant (1979) called the zoological connection. In this post, we outline five areas of…
Multi-Species Dementia 