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Bridging theory and practice
— imagination, the body and person-centred dementia care | | Author(s) | Pia C Kontos, Gary Naglie |
| Journal title | Dementia: the international journal of social research and practice, vol 6, no 4, November 2007 |
| Pages | pp 549-570 |
| Source | http://dem.sagepub.com/ |
| Keywords | Dementia ; Personality ; Medical care ; Attitude ; Medical workers ; Qualitative Studies ; Canada. |
| Annotation | As a corrective to the depersonalising tendencies of some caregiving practices and treatment contexts, the principles of person-centred care have been widely espoused. However, proponents of person-centred care often fail to acknowledge the fact that the body is a fundamental means of communication and, as such, the body is essential to the expression of personhood. Using qualitative research design, it was explored with health care practitioners in Ontario, Canada how an embodied notion of personhood could enhance person-centred dementia care. The findings indicate that the communicative capacity of the body enriches the imagination and connects health practitioners to the personhood of their care recipients, thereby fostering sympathetic care. The findings further indicate that health care practitioners perceive that when care is premised on the communicative capacity of the body, this may improve the time efficiency of clinical practice, and may reduce in certain instances, the need for drug therapy as chemical restraint. Further research is needed in order to evaluate the outcomes of an embodied selfhood approach to person-centred dementia care. (KJ/RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-080131213 A |
| Classmark | EA: DK: LK: DP: QT: 3DP: 7S |
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