What is it about?
Being curious - about places, things, ideas... and other people -- can be good for our health, wellbeing and relationships. This paper explores curiosity with and about other people through a dementia friendship scheme in Liverpool. Doing so, it speaks to some things that many of wonder about: how to get the most out of being with other people; what counts as friendship; what it means to be a curious person, and when this can be a good thing.
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Why is it important?
1. According to health and wellbeing reports, commissioned by the UK government and implemented in schemes such as Liverpool's Decade of Health and Wellbeing, being curious about places, things and people can be good for wellbeing. This raises questions about how to be curious. 2. This paper speaks to questions on many of our minds about how to support people living with dementia, and their friends and families. 3 This paper speaks to broader questions about what it means to be or to have a friend.
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I am exploring curiosity from a series of angles in my work on teaching, multiculturalism, health and wellbeing, and this paper forms part of that broader project.
Professor Richard S Phillips
University of Sheffield
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This page is a summary of: Friendship, curiosity and the city: Dementia friends and memory walks in Liverpool, Urban Studies, February 2016, SAGE Publications,
DOI: 10.1177/0042098016632699.
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