ABSTRACT
Source: Kitwood, T. Dementia Reconsidered. The person comes first. Buckingham: Open University Press, 1997. Reproduced by permission.
Although what follows is highly speculative, it is derived from careful observation; and… I am deliberately drawing on my own poetic fantasy. This imaginative account depicts the experience of a woman in her 80s who has severe cognitive impairments, and who is now in residential care.
