Changing gaze, changing perception: How participatory performative and visual art-practices can empower people with dementia and their caregivers to cope with the condition KU Leuven
Although dementia is increasingly easy to diagnose, it currently remains a progressive, incurable condition. People with dementia and their social circles have to deal not only with this fatal fact, but also with the taboo surrounding it. The stigmatizing ways in which people with dementia, their loved ones and the broader society perceive dementia are not beneficial to the course of the disease: they even contribute to a worsening of the ...