ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses how Bakhtin’s concept of cultural resistance offers a more socio-political explanation of the words and actions of people living with dementia than does either the dominant biomedical model or its psychosocial alternatives. The chapter draws on audio-visual research carried out by the authors in three care environments for people with dementia in the Northern UK. The first and second projects were carried out in voluntary-sector day centres. The third was undertaken in long-term, residential social care with ten participants whose ages ranged from 76 to 99, and most of whom had relatively severe cognitive difficulties.
