In the disability field, it is increasingly the case that people who use services, rather than professionals, have control over the research process, planning and undertaking research and interpreting the findings. In the ‘dementia world’, things have been much slower. The aim of the Dementia Enquirers programme (October 2018 – February 2023) has been to develop a new approach to research, or ‘enquiry’, that is led and controlled by people with dementia themselves.
When I was in the third grade in the late 1950s, we learned to write cursive and were taught the Rinehart Handwriting System. All writing was done with a steel