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Memorabilities
— enduring relationships, memories and abilities in dementia | | Author(s) | Raewyn Bassett, Janice E Graham |
| Journal title | Ageing and Society, vol 27, part 4, July 2007 |
| Pages | pp 533-554 |
| Source | http://www.journals.cambridge.org/jid_ASO |
| Keywords | Dementia ; Personal relationships ; Attitude ; Adjustment ; Memory and Reminiscence ; Qualitative Studies. |
| Annotation | This paper reports the findings of a one-year qualitative investigation of the memories and activities of people with mild to moderate Alzheimer's. Some 58 patient-carer dyads were observed and interviewed during home visits. The participants identified problems that were important to them, Those with Alzheimer's were aware that they were not as attentive as they once had been, that they could no longer rely upon the memory of, or consciously recollect and relive, a past experience, and that the future was more difficult to anticipate. Findings differ from clinical representations of memory located solely in the individual. Instead, memories are regarded as a synergistic package of both social and individual meanings that 'leak' between the two. What experimental psychologists interpret as systems and processes are played out in the everyday world of people with Alzheimer's as contextual, bounded and inter-dependent states of awareness, attention and anticipation. The authors maintain that memory is simultaneously individual and social, and that memorabilities are shared, co-constructed events and experiences in the past, present and future. (KJ/RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-070628204 A |
| Classmark | EA: DS: DP: DR: DB: 3DP |
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