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This article explores the development of reminiscence as an activity in the care home. It describes how care staff can facilitate memory recall with residents by using person-centred methods.
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Dementia affects recent memories and often islands of memory are retained. It is important to have knowledge of a resident's past life, so that care staff understand these fragments of memories an can put them into conext
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This page is a summary of: Dementia and reminiscence: not just a focus on the past, Nursing and Residential Care, December 2013, Mark Allen Group,
DOI: 10.12968/nrec.2013.15.12.790.
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