The capacity for dementia fiction to facilitate understanding and empathy towards people living with dementia

Original language	English
Journal	English Studies
Publication status	Accepted - 07 Sept 2026

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• The capacity for dementia fiction to facilitate understanding and empathy towards people living with dementia

  Accepted author manuscript, 820 KB

  Licence: CC BY

  Embargo ends: 25/05/2030 00:00 BST

Projects

Projects per year 2019 2019 2022

• 1 Finished

Projects per year

• R1023AEL: Dementia in the minds of characters and readers

  Lugea, J. (PI) & Carney, G. (CoI)

  19/02/2019 → 30/06/2022

  Project: Research

  • Fictional Character 100%
  • Contemporary Fiction 48%
  • Reader response 46%
  • Anthology 46%
  • Linguistics 44%

Research output

Research output per year 2025 2025 2025

• 1 Article

Research output per year

Research output per year

• Dementia in the minds of characters and readers – a transdisciplinary study of fictional language

  Devine, P., Lugea, J., Carney, G. M., Fernandez-Quintanilla, C. & Carson, J., 22 Apr 2025, (Early online date) In: Dementia. 25, 2, p. 350-365 16 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  File

  • Personhood 100%
  • Transdisciplinary 100%
  • Stakeholder Group 100%
  • Corpus 50%
  • Literary language 50%

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Fernandez-Quintanilla, C., Lugea, J., Carney, G., & Devine, P. (Accepted/In press). The capacity for dementia fiction to facilitate understanding and empathy towards people living with dementia. English Studies.

Fernandez-Quintanilla, Carolina ; Lugea, Jane ; Carney, Gemma et al. / The capacity for dementia fiction to facilitate understanding and empathy towards people living with dementia. In: English Studies. 2026.

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Fernandez-Quintanilla, C, Lugea, J, Carney, G & Devine, P 2026, 'The capacity for dementia fiction to facilitate understanding and empathy towards people living with dementia', English Studies.

The capacity for dementia fiction to facilitate understanding and empathy towards people living with dementia. / Fernandez-Quintanilla, Carolina; Lugea, Jane; Carney, Gemma et al.
In: English Studies, 07.09.2026.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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Fernandez-Quintanilla C, Lugea J, Carney G, Devine P. The capacity for dementia fiction to facilitate understanding and empathy towards people living with dementia. English Studies. 2026 Sept 7.