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Negotiating the impact of forgetting
— dimensions of resistance in task-oriented conversations between people with early-stage dementia and their partners |
| Author(s) | Linda Clare, Pam Shakespeare |
| Journal title | Dementia: the international journal of social research and practice, vol 3, no 2, June 2004 |
| Pages | pp 211-232 |
| Source | http://www.sagepublications.com/ejournals |
| Keywords | Dementia ; Early ; Spouses ; Cognitive processes ; Communication ; Social interaction ; Qualitative Studies. |
| Annotation | Dialectical and social constructionist approaches to dementia emphasise the importance of social interaction, and recent work has begun to call for a more relationship-based approach. However, little attention has been paid to the interactions of couples where one partner has early-stage dementia. This article describes some of the findings from an exploratory qualitative study investigating conversational interactions between people with early-stage dementia and their spouses. Analysis of data from ten couples draws primarily on voice-relational analytic methods to explore how these couples use talk in conversation to negotiate and co-construct an account of their situation, and to outline the dimensions of resistance in this context. The findings suggest a need to attend to interaction and conversation from the very earliest stages of dementia. The concept of resistance, as evidenced in the interactions presented in this article, provide a framework that can assist in this endeavour. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-040714207 A |
| Classmark | EA: 4J: SN: DA: U: TMA: 3DP |
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