Dementia Fiction

Tag: In Our Own Words

  • Call for Submissions “In Our Own Words”

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    Jan Carson
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    A team of academics, linguists and writers based at Queen’s University Belfast are currently working on an exciting AHRC-funded research project exploring how dementia is written about in the novels we read. As part of this project they’ll be publishing a short booklet of writing by people living with dementia. The “In Our Own Words”…

  • Online Creative Writing with the Alzheimer’s Society

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    Jan Carson
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    Over the course of the next few months we’ll be collecting contributions for our forthcoming “In Our Own Words” pamphlet which will provide a vehicle for people living with dementia to share their own thoughts and experiences. This pamphlet will be circulated amongst healthcare professionals and other people working in areas where they have regular…