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"Playing in the house of ages"
 — the use of symbolic language by people with dementia
Author(s)John Killick
Journal titlePSIGE Newsletter, no 60, April 1997
PublisherPsychologists' Special Interest Group in Elderly People - PSIGE, British Psychological Society, April 1997
Pagespp 20-24
KeywordsDementia ; Communication ; Writing ; Poetry.
AnnotationThe author writes of his experience as Writer in Residence for Westminster Health Care and his work with people with dementia, listening to what they say and shaping individual pieces of writing for them. He gives examples of isolated sentences from different individuals, and how some of these have been turned into verse. (RH).
Accession NumberCPA-981110240 A
ClassmarkEA: U: HKP: HK6

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