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Reading for dementia
Orrell, Martin Dening, Tom
Orrell, Martin
Dening, Tom
Abstract
This chapter brings together perspectives, problems and solutions from expert academics and practitioners working in the field of old age mental health and dementia. Martin Orrell and Tom Dening make a case for reading in dementia care based on both the evidence base and health economics considerations and explain the requirement for the scientifically robust research study which a randomised controlled trial would provide. Nusrat Husain outlines the special case for Shared Reading among the BME population (specifically older British South Asians) who are more vulnerable than other groups to the twin mental health difficulties of dementia and depression and considers the barriers that will need to be overcome to make reading provision viable. Finally, Sally Rimkeit, Gillian Claridge and Dalice Sim, working on a reading and dementia programme in New Zealand, begin to answer some of the issues raised by their UK colleagues in outlining their current three-stage programme (feasibility, pilot, RCT) for a robust study which can help to mainstream reading in old age care.
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2019
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Orrell, M., Dening, T., Husain, N., Rimkeit, S., Claridge, G. & Sim, D. (2019). Reading for dementia. In: Billington, J. (ed.) Reading and Mental Health. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 395-418.