Scanning the conceptual horizons of citizenship

This paper scans recent developments within citizenship studies and relates them to the field of dementia, specifically the ‘dementia friendly communities’ (DFC) agenda. The DFC agenda is selected for several reasons, most notably because, it is an area of practice in the field of dementia where citizenship is perhaps most clearly enacted. The aim of the paper is to help with the advancement of social citizenship as a key concept for dementia studies, by using two of the latest ideas within citizenship studies; namely, understandings of citizenship as (1) occurring in ordinary places, and (2) potentially enacted within the domestic sphere to explore DFCs. It is argued that the interplay between these two developments pave the way for deeper consideration and realisation of social citizenship in the context of people with dementia