Tinted
Lens: Still Alice
The screening
will be followed by an expert panel discussion and audience debate to
explore some of the themes raised by the film, including the clinical
assessment and diagnosis, the impact and experiences of having dementia, and
the response and management of risk implications for other family members.
A collaboration
between Chapter Arts Centre, the British Film Institute (Film hub Wales) and
Cardiff University. This programme of events curated by Dr Katie Featherstone
will explore contemporary social and cultural developments and the ideas found
within new-release, cult and classic film, with a focus on understandings of
the mind, human behaviour, memory, the life-course, and ageing.
Speakers
Mark
Jones leads the Younger Onset Dementia Service,
Cardiff and will discuss the clinical work of the diagnosis and assessment of
dementia and specifically the diagnosis and management for people with younger
onset symptoms.
Alexandra
Hillman is a social scientist and Wellcome Trust Fellow
who will discuss her work on the diagnosis and classification of dementia and
the personal impact of a diagnosis of memory problems.
Katie
Featherstone is a sociologist of medicine and will draw on
her research monograph ‘Risky Relations’ to explore the ways in which
individuals and families manage and respond to a diagnosis that has risk implications
for other family members.
