Re-Walking the City: People with Dementia Remember

Within the dominant biomedical discourse, late-life dementia is regarded as a pathological condition characterised by short-term memory loss, word finding difficulties and ‘problem behaviours’ such as ‘wandering and ‘repetitive questioning’. As its title suggests, one of the main purposes of this chapter is to shift the focus from what people with late-life dementia forget to what they remember, particularly as this relates to places they have known much earlier in life. A central part of my argument is that dementia, often somewhat crudely represented as wholesale memory loss, might better be regarded as a form of spatio-temporal disruption; a disruption which intersects with the theoretical territory of psychogeography.

URI

http://hdl.handle.net/10454/7082

Version

Accepted manuscript

Citation

Capstick A (2015) Re-Walking the City: People with Dementia Remember. In Richardson T (ed), Walking Inside Out: Contemporary British Psychogeography. Rowman and Littlefield: 211-225.

Link to published version

http://www.rowmaninternational.com/books/walking-inside-out

Type

Book chapter