Life Story Work in Dementia Care- report from SPRU
Everybody has a life story. These are rich and varied and can be used to communicate who we are to the people around us. People with dementia sometimes need help to communicate their histories and identities, and it has been suggested that life story work could present a way for them to do this more easily.
In 2012 the Social Policy Research Unit at the University of York launched the first study of its kind to investigate life story work from first principles.
Read more: http://www.york.ac.uk/inst/spru/research/pdf/LifeStorySum.pdf