Remembering and forgetting: group work with people who have dementia

In Chapter 6, Bartlett and Cheston set out some of the key elements of individual counselling or psychotherapy with people with dementia. They described how many people with dementia have a sense of personal responsibility for their illness, and how meeting others who are going through a similar experience can have a positive therapeutic effect. An obvious way to help people with dementia to meet others going through a similar process is to bring them together as a group.