Seminar: 'Literature in care homes: shared reading as a non-medical intervention for people with dementia'

Venue: Room B28 YANG Fujia building, University of Nottingham Jubilee Campus, Triumph Road, Nottingham NG7 2TU
Date: Thursday 8th October 2015 (11:30-12:30)

Speaker: Dr Kevin Harvey 

Kevin will examine the phenomenon of shared reading, how shared reading might work in a care home and help to lessen the symptoms of dementia - including what type of literary texts are able to achieve certain aims and are most useful/appropriate in such a context.