"Traditionally, dementia has been defined primarily in terms of loss: loss of cognitive and communicative competencies, loss of identity, loss of personal relationships. People living with dementia have been portrayed as increasingly dependent on others, with their loved ones seen more as caregivers than as spouses, children and relatives. However, in the last two decades this view of the person living with dementia as an 'empty vessel' has been increasingly challenged, and the focus has shifted from one of care to one of helping people to live with dementia. With contributions from an international range of expert authors, Living with Dementia strongly advocates this new perspective through in-depth discussion of what people with dementia and their loved ones can do, and how they can actively make use of remaining resources."--Back cover.

Introduction : from empty vessels to active agents -- Towards a phenomenological conception of the subjectivity of dementia -- Dementia in the age of migration : cross-cultural perspectives -- Citizenship-in-and-as-practice : a framework for improving life with dementia -- Pathways within dementia diagnosis -- Communication and collaboration in dementia -- Storytelling in dementia : collaboration and common ground -- Dementia as chronic illness: maintaining involvement in everyday life -- 'Home is somewhere-in-between passage': the stories of relocation to a residential home by persons with dementia -- Self-help, mutual support and advocacy : peers getting together.