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Making sense of Alzheimer's disease in an intergenerational context
— the case of a Japanese Canadian nisei (second-generation headed) family | | Author(s) | André P Smith, Karen M Kobayashi |
| Journal title | Dementia: the international journal of social research and practice, vol 1, no 2, June 2002 |
| Pages | pp 213-226 |
| Keywords | Dementia ; Children [offspring] as carers ; Family relationships ; Asian people ; Japan ; Canada. |
| Annotation | An appraisal of cultural values and life history events is necessary to fully understand the ways in which family members interpret the significance of cognitive symptoms and make decisions about access to clinical services for a relative in the early to moderate stages of dementia. This article presents a case study of a nisei (second-generation) Japanese Canadian family, in which the father was referred for clinical evaluation at a dementia clinic, and diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease (AD). The case study identifies the traditional isei (first-generation) Japanese Canadian values of filial obligation, and shame and awareness of the father's life history as salient mediators in family members' interpretation of dementia symptoms. A discussion of the role of clinical evaluation in arbitrating between divergent interpretations of the nature of the father's disruptive behaviour among family members is included. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-020816205 A |
| Classmark | EA: P6:SS: DS:SJ: TKK: 7DT: 7S |
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