From Dementia
Dementia is set to become one of the key health and social care challenges of the 21st century and is attracting global policy attention mainly arising from concern about increases in the number of people with dementia, particularly in developed countries.
Biomedical understandings of dementia have long influenced care policy and practice; more recently, evidence-based psycho-social and social gerontology approaches have been advanced. This paper highlights links between theory, policy, practice and research in dementia care, and how these in turn shape further understandings of dementia care.
