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Films like A Kind of Madness and Rose of Nevada are helping us see dementia differently

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par Andrea Holck, Doctoral Researcher, City St George's, University of London

Watching a film about dementia is, ordinarily, a sobering activity. We watch someone become imprisoned in the temporal chaos of their mind. We empathise with the family members nobly trying their best to do what’s right. We leave the film in a fog of melancholia, having been reminded of how sad the condition is.

And dementia is sad. But the stories we tell about it need not only be a premature elegy for someone…

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