TOM DENING TOM.DENING@NOTTINGHAM.AC.UK
Clinical Professor in Dementia Research
The struggle of apathy in dementia
Dening, Tom; Baber, Waqaar; Chang, Marybeth; Yates, Jen
Authors
Waqaar Baber
Marybeth Chang
JEN YATES Jen.Yates@nottingham.ac.uk
Assistant Professor in Mental Health
Abstract
Most people will recognise a sense of apathy within them, at some point during their lives, and this may present to a greater or lesser extent depending on the individual and the context. When people are asked about what apathy is, what it means, or how it might feel, generally they can provide an insight, suggesting it is something broadly universal to the human experience. We might consider apathy to be a lack of motivation, a feeling of not being bothered, or a desire to do something coupled completely with a desire not to do that same thing. For most people though, apathy can be overcome, and it represents a fleeting problem that does not impact on day-to-day life. For people with dementia, apathy is an important problem because it is recognised anecdotally, clinically and in research to be common (Selbaek et al., 2013; Zhao et al., 2016), persistent (van der Linde et al., 2017), and difficult to live with for both the person with dementia and those close to them (Feast et al., 2016). Follow-up studies suggest that apathy is associated with worse health and social outcomes (Breitve et al., 2018).
Citation
Dening, T., Baber, W., Chang, M., & Yates, J. (2022). The struggle of apathy in dementia. Aging and Mental Health, 26(10), 1909-1911. https://doi.org/10.1080/13607863.2021.2008309
Journal Article Type | Editorial |
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Acceptance Date | Nov 14, 2021 |
Online Publication Date | Dec 1, 2021 |
Publication Date | 2022 |
Deposit Date | Jan 30, 2022 |
Publicly Available Date | Mar 29, 2024 |
Journal | Aging and Mental Health |
Print ISSN | 1360-7863 |
Electronic ISSN | 1364-6915 |
Publisher | Informa UK Limited |
Peer Reviewed | Peer Reviewed |
Volume | 26 |
Issue | 10 |
Pages | 1909-1911 |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1080/13607863.2021.2008309 |
Keywords | Psychiatry and Mental health; Geriatrics and Gerontology; Gerontology; Phychiatric Mental Health |
Public URL | https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/7354351 |
Publisher URL | https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13607863.2021.2008309 |
Additional Information | This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Aging and Mental Health on 1.12.21, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/13607863.2021.2008309 |
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