Chapter 1. Introduction.- Part I: The Talk of Persons with Dementia: What Can It Tell Us?.- Chapter 2. Dementia, Etiologies, and Implications on Communication.- Chapter 3. Challenges in Collecting Real-World Dementia Discourse.- Chapter 4. Why Use Interactional Data to Better Understand the Effects of Dementia?.- Part II: Learning from the Talk of Persons with Dementia: Practical Steps for Doing and Applying Linguistic and Social Interactional Research.- Chapter 5. Signposts, Guideposts, and Stalls: Pragmatic and Discourse Markers in Dementia Discourse.- Chapter 6. Making Sense of Syntactic Error in Conversations between Persons with Dementia and their Non-Impaired Co-Participants.- Chapter 7. Foregrounding Competence in Interaction with a Person with Dementia: Co-Participant Responses to Disordered Talk.- Chapter 8. Meaningfulness at the Intersection of Knowledge and Environmental Objects: Investigating Interactions in Art Galleries and Residences Involving Persons with Dementia and Their Carers.- Chapter 9. Disagreements in Assessment Sequences with Persons Diagnosed with Frontotemporal Dementia.- Chapter 10. Dementia and the Life Course: Examining Cognitive Decline in a Slowly Progressing Degenerative Illness.- Chapter 11. Public and Private Spaces in Residential Care for Older People.- Part III: Keeping the Conversation Going.- Chapter 12. Conclusion: Keeping the Conversation Going.
