The meanings of dementia: interpreting cultural narratives of aging societies [the meanings of dementia: interpreting cultural narratives of aging societies is an 18-month project to produce new…

The Hastings Center Inc. was awarded a $287,018 Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities under the Promotion of the Humanities Research program (CFDA 45.161). The 18-month project will produce new critical writing on meanings of dementia in diverse social groups in the United States and other aging societies. Specifically, the Center will convene scholars to consider how cultural narratives expressed through metaphors, tropes, and other representations influence public understanding of dementia. This will result in a peer-reviewed print and open-access digital volume of 18 essays for publication as a supplement to an academic journal. The project aims to foster greater inclusion for those living with dementia or providing dementia care.

The meanings of dementia: interpreting cultural narratives of aging societies [the meanings of dementia: interpreting cultural narratives of aging societies is an 18-month project to produce new critical writing on meanings of dementia in diverse social groups in the united states and other aging societies. Dementia refers to a group of common, age-associated, progressively debilitating, ultimately terminal conditions affecting thought, memory, speech, and behavior. Humanities scholarship has long studied personal narratives; this humanities-social science collaboration will consider how greater attention to cultural narratives ? Concepts expressed through metaphors, tropes, images, and other representations that circulate through a society to make meaning out of experience ? Can translate into public humanities work fostering greater inclusion for fellow citizens living with dementia or providing dementia care. We will produce a print and open-access digital volume of 18 essays for peer review and print publication as a supplement to a scholarly journal.]