Reminiscence in Dementia Care

Abstract

In this article, I sketch the history of an idea, placing it in its historical and geographical context. I trace the development of the project “Remembering Yesterday, Caring Today,†from 1997 when it was first funded by the European Union, through its UK development as the focus of research studies funded by the Medical Research Council and the Research Institute of the UK Department of Health, to its present state as the basis of a training and apprenticeship scheme. I show the impact on practice of various findings (positive and negative) to emerge from research studies and some resulting interesting moral and practical dilemmas which have exercised those of us who have been on this journey.