Rethinking Communication guide to advanced dementia

In the 1950s Dr. John Bowlby began to empirically examine the importance of relationships in children’s lives. His studies have had a massive influence on our understanding that human beings are dependent on one another for our emotional and physical well-being. That dependency derives from the fact that babies don’t walk for the first year of life. That means infants are left totally reliant on other people to keep them safe from predators and other dangers. Thus our early dependency shapes brain development. This has had a massive impact on our evolutionary history as human beings. The scientific study of attachment has tended to focus on early Dr John Bowlby thebowlbycentre.org.uk