title: Explorations in Dementia Michael Bender Explorations in Dementia Jessica Kingsley Publishers 443pp £19.95 1 843100401 1843100401 [Formula: see text].
abstract: This is a dangerous and deeply flawed book in which the author 'roasts' an array of old chestnuts. The premise is that there is a 'standard paradigm' of dementia and that this standard paradigm is wrong. The standard paradigm attributes dementia to a series of underlying pathologies and says that dementia is progressive and debilitating.