The large and growing human and financial cost of dementia provides an imperative for policy action. It is already the second largest cause of disability for the over-70s and it costs $645bn per year globally, and ageing populations mean that these costs will grow. There is no cure or effective...

Introduction. New Perspectives on Caregiving -- Reformulating Stress and Burden -- Challenging the Medical Model of Dementia -- Looking to the Past: What the Nineteenth Century Can Tell Us -- The Elder Care Crisis: The Tyranny of the Family Responsibility Ethic -- "That Was No Respite for Me!":...