Rethinking Dementia

IDEAL Programme

In this free online interactive event for the Being Human Festival, you'll hear different perspectives on rethinking dementia.

Rethinking Dementia is a free one hour online event offering you different perspectives on how to rethink what you know (or think you know) about dementia. What do people know about dementia? And why is it important to think carefully about the way we represent dementia? Is there room for more positivity? 
This online interactive workshop answers these questions and more. It features two short talks from researchers working on dementia, from literary and scientific perspectives, and you’ll hear directly from people with lived experience of dementia. 
Our event Padlet is already open for audience participation, so join us as we unpack what ‘dementia’ means in our shared imagination: <a href="https://padlet.com/CathyCharlwood/RethinkingDementia" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">https://padlet.com/CathyCharlwood/RethinkingDementia</a>. We will build on what is shared here when we open for audience Q&amp;A at the event itself.

(from left to right, we have Jane, Elizabeth, Willy and Serena)Jane Ward started out as a satellite test engineer, backpacked around the world and became an English teacher. Following her mother's diagnosis of Vascular Dementia, Jane became her full-time carer. Jane joined the Alzheimer's Society Research Network which has led to involvement in several dementia projects. Following her mum's death in 2013, Jane got involved in the Dementia Friendly Communities project and she currently runs <a href="https://dementiafriendlyhampshire.org.uk/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Dementia Friendly Hampshire</a>. Her passion for gardening is a legacy from her grandfather and mum.Elizabeth Barry is Associate Professor of English at the University of Warwick. Most of her recent publications are in the field of literary age studies and she edited the 2020 volume of Literature and Ageing (Boydell and Brewer). Elizabeth is an international partner on the <a href="https://www.uib.no/en/project/ageing" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Historicizing the Ageing Self</a> project at the University of Bergen, Norway.Willy Gilder has early stage Alzheimer’s Disease that affects his eyesight and some aspects of his verbal memory. He’s lived and worked for most of his life in Northampton, where he was a local radio journalist for the BBC. He now lives in Scotland where he’s involved with dementia activism, painting, drawing, and the Arts.Serena Sabatini is a Postdoctoral Research Associate working on the <a href="http://www.idealproject.org.uk/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">IDEAL programme</a>. During her PhD, Serena looked at the positive and negative changes that people experience while getting older. Outside of work, Serena is a keen traveller and an excellent baker!This event is part of the Being Human festival, the UK’s only national festival of the humanities, taking place 11–20 November 2021. For further information please see <a href="https://beinghumanfestival.org/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">beinghumanfestival.org</a>. If do not wish to register via Eventbrite, please email IDEAL@exeter.ac.uk to register for this event. Please let us know if you have any accessibility requirements (such as needing a BSL interpreter) and we will do our best to meet them.

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