Introduction

Living well with dementia is fundamentally about what an individual can do, rather than what he or she cannot do. For example, on an evening in March 2013, fi lmmakers and scientists came together at an event hosted by the University of Bristol to increase the public understanding of dementia. A series of short fi lms about dementia, curated by local fi lmmaker James MurrayWhite, preceded a discussion with researchers from the University of Bristol and other institutions supported by ‘BRACE’, a local charity that funds research into Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of dementia (BRACE, 2013).