Leisure and Everyday Life with Dementia

This book examines leisure in the everyday lives of people living with dementia and challenges readers to consider the role of leisure activities beyond their potential for therapeutic benefit.

Leisure and Everyday Life with Dementia emphasises how leisure offers people living with dementia opportunity to realise their citizenship through participating in leisure in everyday life. It explores the role of society in enabling this through giving equal chances to make choices about how, when and where people participate. This book:

• Examines diverse kinds of leisure, including sports, music, travel, nature, and the online world
• Contains accessible summaries and ‘So what does this mean in practice?’ sections at the end of each chapter
• Has been co-edited and written with a guiding vision provided by a person living with dementia
• Contains contributions from authors across the world and across multiple disciplines.