Paul Higgs, PhD is Professor of the Sociology of Ageing at the UCL Faculty of Brain Sciences, UK. He holds Fellowships from the Academy of Social Sciences and the Gerontological Society of America. Chris Gilleard, PhD is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences and a Visiting Research Fellow at the Division of Psychiatry, Faculty of Brain Sciences, University College London, UK.

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• Notes on contributors vii1 Ageing, dementia and the social mind: past, present and future perspectives 1Paul Higgs and Chris Gilleard2 Relational citizenship: supporting embodied selfhood and relationality in dementia care 7Pia Kontos, Karen-Lee Miller and Alexis P. Kontos3 Shifting dementia discourses from deficit to active citizenship 24Linda Birt, Fiona Poland, Emese Csipke and Georgina Charlesworth4 Narrative collisions, sociocultural pressures and dementia: the relational basis of personhood reconsidered 37Edward Tolhurst, Bernhard Weicht and Paul Kingston5 Power, empowerment, and person-centred care: using ethnography to examine the everyday practice of unregistered dementia care staff 52Kezia Scales, Simon Bailey, Joanne Middleton and Justine Schneider6 Institutionalising senile dementia in 19th-century Britain 69Emily Stella Andrews7 Dichotomising dementia: is there another way? 83Patricia Mc Parland, Fiona Kelly and Anthea Innes8 When walking becomes wandering: representing the fear of the fourth age 95Katherine Brittain, Cathrine Degnen, Grant Gibson, Claire Dickinson and Louise Robinson9 Re-imagining dementia in the fourth age: the ironic fictions of Alice Munro 110Marlene Goldman10 Social class, dementia and the fourth age 128Ian Rees Jones11 Precarity in late life: rethinking dementia as a ‘frailed’ old age 142Amanda Grenier, Liz Lloyd and Chris PhillipsonIndex 155