Description
Book SynopsisâœThis exciting and unique book provides a significant collection of the research base and theory surrounding leisure and dementia.âDr Mary OâMalley, BSc, PhD, CPsychol, Senior Research Fellow, Association for Dementia Studies, University of Worcester, UK
âœThis is the most important edited collection to emerge from leisure studies in the last thirty years.â Professor Karl Spracklen, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Leeds Beckett University, UK
âœThis book is a novel collection of works that not only broadens and enriches our understandings of the importance of leisure for people living with dementia, but in demonstrating the possibilities for living well with dementia through engagement with leisure, it helps to build the foundation for developing an ethical standard to support such engagement to the fullest extent possible.âPia Kontos, Senior Scientist and Professor, KITE Research Institute, Toronto Reh
Table of ContentsAbout the editors ContributorsForewords The Reconsidering Dementia Series PrefaceChapter 1. Considering leisure and dementia
Realm One: The individual, interactions and relationshipsChapter 2. Framing meanings of leisure
Chapter 3. Music in daily life
Chapter 4. Gender, leisure and dementia
Chapter 5. Communication in social leisure activity
Realm Two: Time – how it is used and by whom Chapter 6. Understanding meaningful moments
Chapter 7. Sport and physical activity
Chapter 8. Tourism and travel
Chapter 9. Resisting stigma
Realm Three: Place, places and spaces – their nature, use and meaningChapter 10. Third places as leisure environments
Chapter 11. Connecting with nature
Chapter 12. Dementia access in museums and galleries
Chapter 13. Walking football
Chapter 14. The online leisure environment
Afterword Index
