Dementia Citizenship Revisited: New Directions in Theory, Practice, and Lived Experience

Julia Fischer, Christopher Russell, Pia Kontos, Julie Hayden, Ann-Charlotte Nedlund, Department for Ethics and Law in Medicine, University of Vienna , Medical University of Vienna, Institute for Ethics, Collections and History of Medicine, Medical University of Vienna, Association for Dementia Studies, University of Worcester, University Health Network, KITE Research Institute, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Dementia Alliance International, Department of Applied Dementia Studies, Bradford University, Department of Health, Medicine and Caring Sciences, Linköping University

Dementia: The International Journal of Social Research and Practice

Published online on July 25, 2026

Abstract

Dementia, Ahead of Print.
Over the past two decades, citizenship discourse has become an important framework within dementia studies, shifting attention from individualised and deficit-oriented understandings of dementia toward the socio-political, legal, institutional, cultural ...