Reconsidering the Life Review: The Social Construction of Talk About the Past

Wallace, Jennifer

doi:10.1093/geront/32.1.120

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“…Another example of this approach is that of Deppen-Wood, Luborsky, and Scheer (1997). Wallace (1992) cautions that narrative refl ections, such as we report here, should not be assumed to be natural or inevitable for older adults, but rather a response to particular interactional and narrative challenges, such as conversations or fi eld interviews. 3.…”

Section: Notesmentioning

confidence: 70%

June’s Troubled Transition: Adjustment to Residential Care for Older Adults With Dementia

Jaffe

Wellin²

2008

Care Management Journals

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In research on dementia care and housing transitions, only rarely are residents themselves present as active informants. This is a costly omission, inasmuch as manifestations of dementia, perceptions of care settings, and residents' experience of such transitions are both complex and highly variable. In this article, drawn from a larger study of the social organization of care in residential care/assisted living (RC/AL), we develop a detailed, ethnographic narrative that combines first-person reflections by, and observational data on, a single resident--a focal case. The account suggests that for older adults with mild to moderate dementia, awareness of serious impairment among coresidents can be both distressing and stigmatizing. We further argue that assumptions about and attributions of dementia by staff members, compounded by immediate demands of caregiving, may create a self-fulfilling prophecy resulting in residents' resistance and withdrawal. The case also suggests that, to the extent this interactional dynamic is present, distinctive goals in RC/AL, such as enhanced self-determination among residents, are undermined.

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Section: Notesmentioning

confidence: 70%

June’s Troubled Transition: Adjustment to Residential Care for Older Adults With Dementia

Jaffe

Wellin²

2008

Care Management Journals

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“…Telling stories about one's life is not characteristic only of elderly people (Saarenheimo 1997;Mullen 1992, 3;Wallace 1992),15 although older people have accumulated a vast knowledge of traditions, professional experience and experiences of universal life events such as human relationships, births, deaths, etc. (Mullen 1992, 3;Reinharz 1992, 141).…”

Section: Blind Spots and Reflexivitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Her Own Worth: Negotiations of Subjectivity in the Life Narrative of a Female Labourer

Koskinen-Koivisto

2014

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“…Widely practiced in gerontology, 6,11,12 life review is thought to be a useful method for understanding both self and others. 13 In gerontology, multiple and consecutive weekly sessions are used to analyze, evaluate, and synthesize life events.…”

Section: Overviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Life review has been described as a recasting of the past in the context of the present 10 : the chance to reexamine one's life and solve old problems, the chance to make amends and restore harmony, 11 and the chance to "find new meaning in the face of impending death." 12 23(p36) builds on this vision, contending that a solely physiological approach with the terminally ill is "two-dimensional, and without the color, tone, or texture of life." Additionally, Volker and Limerick 24 explored the concept of dignified dying.…”

Section: Overviewmentioning

confidence: 99%