Tom Kitwood
Thomas Marris Kitwood (1937 – November 1, 1998) was an English social psychologist and gerontologist who pioneered the concept of person‑centered dementia care. He founded the Bradford Dementia Group (renamed to the School of Dementia Studies in 2014) at the University of Bradford and authored Dementia Reconsidered: The Person Comes First (1997), a book credited with shifting dementia care practice away from a purely biomedical toward a relational model.[1][2]
Career
Kitwood earned a Bachelor of Arts in Natural Sciences from King's College, Cambridge, in 1960 and completed a Ph.D. at the University of Bradford in 1977.[3] In 1992 he established the Bradford Dementia Group, where he and nurse Kathleen Bredin developed Dementia Care Mapping, a tool for evaluating quality of life in care homes.[4][5][6][7]
Published Books
Dementia Reconsidered: The Person Comes First. Open University Press, 1997. ISBN 978-0335198566 Dementia Reconsidered, Revisited: The Person Still Comes First. McGraw-Hill Education (UK), 2019. ISBN 978-0335248025 What is Human?. Inter-Varsity Press, 1970. ISBN 0851103510 Disclosures to a Stranger: Adolescent Values in an Advanced Industrial Society. Taylor & Francis, 1980. ISBN 978-1000814002 Concern for Others: A New Psychology of Conscience and Morality. Routledge, 1990. ISBN 978-0415043779 The New Culture of Dementia Care. Hawker Publications Ltd, 1995. ISBN 978-1874790174
References
- ↑ Thompson, Paul (December 6, 1998). "Obituary: Professor Thomas Kitwood". The Independent. Retrieved July 29, 2025.
- ↑ Brooker, Dawn (2022). "Person-Centered Dementia Care: The Legacy of Tom Kitwood". International Journal of Person Centered Medicine. 12 (2): 21–36. doi:10.5750/ijpcm.v12i2.1114. ISSN 2043-7749.
- ↑ Brooker, Dawn (2023). "Person‑Centered Dementia Care: The Legacy of Tom Kitwood". International Journal of Person‑Centered Medicine. 12 (3): 198–202. Retrieved July 29, 2025.
- ↑ Thompson, Paul (1999). "Obituary: Professor Tom Kitwood 1937–1998". The Psychologist. 1 (125): 52–53. doi:10.53841/bpscpf.1999.1.125.52. Retrieved July 29, 2025.
- ↑ "Dementia Care Mapping - Training and consultancy". University of Bradford. Retrieved 2025-07-29.
- ↑ Tieu, Matthew; Matthews, Steve (2024-01-13). "The Relational Care Framework: Promoting Continuity or Maintenance of Selfhood in Person-Centered Care". The Journal of Medicine and Philosophy. 49 (1): 85–101. doi:10.1093/jmp/jhad044. ISSN 1744-5019. PMC 10787111 Check
|pmc=value (help). PMID 37776569 Check|pmid=value (help). - ↑ Fazio, Sam; Pace, Douglas; Flinner, Janice; Kallmyer, Beth (2018-01-18). "The Fundamentals of Person-Centered Care for Individuals With Dementia". The Gerontologist. 58 (suppl_1): S10–S19. doi:10.1093/geront/gnx122. ISSN 0016-9013. PMID 29361064.
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