Looking “out of place”: analysing the spatial and symbolic meanings of dementia care settings through dress

Buse, Christina; Twigg, Julia

doi:10.3384/ijal.1652-8670.20149169

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“…Chapman (2006) proposes that all people have 'special things' in their lives, and that these can be utilised to explore ageing and how people make sense of the transitions that are inherent to this period in life. Buse and Twigg's (2014a, 2014b, 2015 and Chapman's (2006) studies focus on specific objects, and the objects become keys to access reflections about experiences of ageing and illness. In contrast, we explore the roles of objects based on data from open interviews about the EoL.…”

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“…Hoskins (1998) notes that objects become entangled in life events and that they can function as vehicles for selfhood. It has been argued that a loss of objects as a result of care transitions can disrupt embodied connections to memories and identity (Buse and Twigg 2014a). This implies that enabling arrangements with objects might support individuals through transitions.…”

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Not just things: the roles of objects at the end of life

Cleeve

Tishelman

Macdonald

et al. 2018

Sociology Health & Illness

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While the study of objects in care contexts is an emerging research field, it is largely overlooked in end of life (EoL) care. In this study, we empirically and inductively explore the roles of objects at the EoL from the perspective of bereaved family members. Open individual interviews were conducted with 25 family members recruited from palliative in-patient and homecare units, as well as residential care facilities. After verbatim transcription, the interviews were analysed thematically. Based on these interviews, we conceptualise the roles of objects as relating to temporality, transformations of the everyday, and care. Through analysis we offer two main insights, the first relating to interdependency between objects and people, and the second to the recognition of objects as simultaneously flexible and stable in this interdependent relationship. The capacity and challenge of objects as part of EoL care lies in their ability to encompass various viewpoints and relationships simultaneously. This might provide valuable insights for staff caring for dying persons and their families. We propose that staff's ability to navigate objects in care practices could be meaningful in supporting the relationships between individuals in EoL situations.

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Not just things: the roles of objects at the end of life

Cleeve

Tishelman

Macdonald

et al. 2018

Sociology Health & Illness

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“…Hydén () argues that it is possible for healthcare professionals to learn how utilise materialities so that persons with dementia can be involved as collaborators. Comparably, Buse & Twigg (,b, ) call for care institutions to recognise the importance of dress when caring for individuals with dementia and they underline that this would require education and guidance for staff concerning dress practices. Thus, both Hydén () and Buse and Twigg (,b, ) propose that healthcare professionals should be given training to better account for the role of materialities in various care situations.…”

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(In)visible materialities in the context of dementia care

Cleeve

Borell

Rosenberg

2019

Sociology Health & Illness

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Seemingly mundane materialities are intertwined with important, but often neglected, care interactions. It has been argued that if healthcare professionals paid more attention to the roles materialities can have, everyday routines could become important occasions for care. In response to such proposals, we argue that it is relevant to examine how materialities are currently understood. In this article, we explore materialities as part of work in a dementia unit. Using abstracted illustrations of everyday materialities to elicit reflections, we conducted 11 individual interviews with certified nursing assistants. Through phenomenographic analysis we explain our findings as three different categories conceptualising understandings of materialities as: ‘tools for care’, ‘a set of principles for care’ and ‘caring relationships’. Our analysis indicates that understanding materialities as instruments was reinforced and made visible through the healthcare organisation while understanding materialities as part of specific relationships with residents appeared informal and less visible. How materialities were understood seemed to have several implications for residents. While care practices could benefit from nursing assistants’ abilities to alternate between ways of understanding materialitites, such competence seemed dependent on how professional care was organised, structured and materialised.

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“…,Buse and Twigg (2014) andMcColgan's (2005) studies of people with dementia living in care homes reveal the ways in which care home residents reconfigure either their material or their psychogeographic environments to create private spaces in the public environment of the care home. For instance, Buse and Twigg(2018)described how residents with dementia used handbags and material props to create privacy within the care home lounge, as well as their clothing strategies such as putting on a coat or packing a suitcase to express their desire to leave the care home.…”

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Broadening the debate on creativity and dementia: A critical approach

Bellass

Balmer²,

May

et al. 2018

Dementia

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In recent years there has been a growing interest in person-centred, 'living well' approaches to dementia, often taking the form of important efforts to engage people with dementia in a range of creative, arts-based interventions such as dance, drama, music, art and poetry. Such practices have been advanced as socially inclusive activities that help to affirm personhood and redress the biomedical focus on loss and deficit. However, in emphasizing more traditional forms of creativity associated with the arts, more mundane forms of creativity that emerge in everyday life have been overlooked, specifically with regard to how such creativity is used by people living with dementia and by their carers and family members as a way of negotiating changes in their everyday lives. In this paper, we propose a critical approach to understanding such forms of creativity in this context, comprised of six dimensions: everyday creativity; power relations; ways to operationalise creativity; sensory and affective experience; difference; and reciprocity. We point towards the potential of these dimensions to contribute to a reframing of debates around creativity and dementia.

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Looking “out of place”: analysing the spatial and symbolic meanings of dementia care settings through dress

Cited by 19 publications

References 42 publications

Not just things: the roles of objects at the end of life

Not just things: the roles of objects at the end of life

(In)visible materialities in the context of dementia care

Broadening the debate on creativity and dementia: A critical approach

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