Language, Literature and Performing Arts

Presented at the DC Research Café May 14, 2020.

Presented at the DC Research Café (May 14, 2020). Peter Wilkins presents the Douglas College Dementia Comics project which explores the potential of comics to enhance the impact of dementia care research. I Know How This Ends is the second volume in a series that started with Parables of Care: Creative Responses to Dementia Care (2017). This comic book presents, in synthesized form, stories crafted from narrative data collected via interviews with professional caregivers, educators, and staff at Douglas College in Vancouver, Canada, who have cared for relatives and people with dementia in hospital. The intention of the book is to show the importance of feeling in care-giving, the professional aspects of which are sometimes at odds with the family systems aspect of dementia. Douglas College Comics Project members also Marie-Pier Caron, Nursing and Ruhina Rana, Nursing.