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A man's gotta do what a man's gotta do: husbands as caregivers to their demented wives
— a discourse analytic approach | | Author(s) | Tapio Kirsi, Antti Hervonen, Marja Jylhä |
| Journal title | Journal of Aging Studies, vol 14, no 2, June 2000 |
| Pages | pp 153-170 |
| Keywords | Dementia ; Husbands as carers ; Communication skills ; Finland. |
| Annotation | In this discourse analysis study on 15 stories written by Finnish husbands who were giving or had given care to their demented wives, the authors identified articulations of four different ways of speaking about one's actions and experiences as a family caregiver. The authors call these four modes of speech the factual, familistic, agency, and destiny speech repertoires. Using different speech repertoires in their narration, the husbands adopted the respective identities of an observer and reporter, a responsible caregiver, an independent actor, and a victim or a drifter. The speech repertoires and identity constructions varied according to the contexts of the writers' speech, and bore different functions for the writers' narrations. The main finding was the diversity of husbands' experiences of caregiving and the contextuality of how these experiences were talked about. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-001114202 A |
| Classmark | EA: P6:SNA: UO: 76L |
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