The Perspectives of People with Dementia Alice Sluckin The grassroots experiences which lay

The grassroots experiences which lay at the heart of the book exhibit an array of different forms of partnership and dispersal of good practice in action

Focusing primarily on the theoretical thinking and understanding of the paediatrician and psychoanalyst Donald Winnicott

but can be especially difficult for children

This simple method is accessible to anyone who lives or works with such people

A particular strength is the inclusion of case vignettes that describe individual older clients with lifelong disabilities

The Perspectives of People with Dementia Alice Sluckin The grassroots experiences which layPeople with dementia have often played a passive role in the investigation of their condition. The contributors to this book look at ways of redressing the balance and involving them in the research process. They describe the skills that researchers and care staff need, and the methods they can use, when seeking to draw out and validate the views of people with dementia successfully, and discuss the ways in which such views can be included in debates