Out & About With Dementia Study

Dementia & Mobilities in Public Space of Everyday Life

Funded by a SSHRC (Social Science and Humanities Research Council ) Insight Development Grant 

This citizen science and ethnographic study using visual methods will begin a process of developing knowledge about how mobility – or the freedom to move through, and participate in, the world – is shaped and supported over time for people living with dementia and their families at home.

The study has the following specific aims:

  • To learn about how everyday mobility outside the home is arranged, maintained, and adjusted over time by people living with dementia and their families;

  • To understand how care infrastructures, common ideas and urban environments shape mobilities in everyday life for people living with dementia and their families.

Principal Investigator
Holly Symonds-Brown

Co-Investigator:
Dr. Chris Ceci
(University of Alberta)

Collaborator:
Dr. Jeanette Pols
(University of Amsterdam)

  • Phase 1 will focus on engaging with groups of PLWD and CP as citizen scientists to map the spaces/places of their community and practices of managing the challenges of public space with dementia.

    Phase 2 will focus on building individual case studies of everyday mobility over time.

  • Please contact:
    Holly Symonds-Brown
    hsymonds@ualberta.ca