Professor Dawn Brooker qualified as a clinical psychologist in 1984. She has worked in a variety of clinical, academic and managerial posts in services for older people for over twenty-five years. She was influenced by the late Professor Tom Kitwood in his work on personhood and malignant social psychology. Following Kitwood's death she was invited to take his work on Dementia Care Mapping forwards at the Bradford Dementia Group at the University of Bradford. In 2005 she was awarded a personal chair in recognition of her scholarship in practice development of person-centred care for people with dementia. In May 2009 she took up her current post as the Director of the newly established University of Worcester Association for Dementia Studies.
Keynote Presentation at the National Life Story Network Conference, Leeds, UK 12th Feb 2010 www.lifestorynetwork.org.uk
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