Integrating aesthetics, neuroaesthetics, and Polyvagal Theory to develop a novel conceptual framework for person-centred dementia care

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This chapter considers how cross-disciplinary insights from aesthetics, neuroaesthetics, and Polyvagal Theory may come together to inform and enrich dementia care, developing a novel cross-disciplinary framework for future practice and person-centred dementia care. This chapter is grounded in the author’s current (2022–2026) postdoctoral Fellowship at The University of Manchester which investigated how people living with dementia and their carers experience meaningful aesthetic moments in their everyday lives. Based on the author’s multidisciplinary background and current research, this chapter follows their journey from neuroscience through Patient and Public Involvement and Engagement policymaking to psychotherapeutic and aesthetic approaches to dementia care, providing a narrative arc leading to the cross-disciplinary theoretical approach presented in this chapter. This chapter begins by considering how aesthetic experiences shape identity and well-being. Next, the author explores how neuroaesthetic processes in the brain may sustain identity and connection despite cognitive decline before finally outlining how Polyvagal Theory suggests autonomic mechanisms responsible for feelings of safety, connection, and regulation in everyday life and care settings. This chapter then, for the first time, draws these three fields together into an integrated framework that combines the embodied, relational, and neurophysiological dimensions of care for people living with dementia.

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