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Balancing between contradictions
— the meaning of interaction with people suffering from dementia and "behavioural disturbances" | | Author(s) | Ulla H Graneheim, Ulf Isaksson, Inga-Maj Persson Ljung |
| Journal title | International Journal of Aging and Human Development, vol 60, no 2, 2005 |
| Pages | pp 145-158 |
| Source | http://baywood.com |
| Keywords | Dementia ; Behaviour disorders ; Residents [care homes] ; Care home staff ; Social interaction ; Social surveys ; Sweden. |
| Annotation | Interacting with people who suffer from dementia. poses a challenge for care providers, and the presence of behavioural disturbances adds a further complication. This article is based on the assumption that behavioural disturbances are meaningful expressions of experiences. Six narrative interviews were conducted with residential home care providers in northern Sweden, with the aim of illuminating the meaning of interaction with people suffering from dementia and behavioural disturbances. The interviews were tape-recorded, transcribed into text, and interpreted using a phenomenological hermeneutic methodology. The findings indicate that interacting with people with dementia and behavioural disturbances, as narrated by care providers, means balancing between contradictions concerning meeting the person in my versus his/her world, feeling powerless versus capable, and feeling rejected versus accepted. Interaction involves being at various positions along these continua at different points in time. Furthermore, it means facing ethical dilemmas concerning doing good for the individual or the collective. This is interpreted as a dialectic process and is reflected on in light of Hegel's reasoning about the struggle between the master and the slave. (RH) |
| Accession Number | CPA-050504213 A |
| Classmark | EA: EP: KX: QRM: TMA: 3F: 76P |
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