Abstract
Cracked: new light on dementia is a research-informed play that casts a critical light on society’s one-dimensional view of dementia as an unmitigated tragedy (Mitchell, Dupuis, & Kontos, 2013). The play raises questions about the predominant discourse of loss that defines current conceptions of dementia, and the dehumanizing care practices that still prevail in care settings.
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Gray, J. (2017). Cracked. In: Gray, J. (eds) ReView. Social Fictions Series. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-821-1_3
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