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| Exploring positioning in Alzheimer's Disease through analyses of family talk | | Author(s) | Barbara A Purves |
| Journal title | Dementia: the international journal of social research and practice, vol 10, no 1, February 2011 |
| Pages | pp 35-58 |
| Source | http://dem.sagepub.com/ |
| Keywords | Dementia ; The Family ; Family relationships ; Family care ; Attitude ; Interviewing ; Case studies. |
| Annotation | A diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease brings with it changes in interpretations and expectations of behaviours, activities and interactions for the whole family. Given the importance of family members in caring for persons with dementia, it is critical that the way in which a family negotiates the changes associated with dementia is better understood. Equally important are the implications of that process for both individual members and for the whole family as a unit. This case study used two complementary approaches to explore positioning in the family of a Japanese-Canadian woman with dementia. The first used interviewing to reveal how family members positioned themselves and each other in their conscious reflections about dementia. The second drew on conversation analysis to highlight how they positioned themselves and each other in their everyday conversations together. The findings are discussed in terms of: emerging roles, Rosa as a person with AD; and renegotiating long standing roles, the family cook, the grandmother. Although limited to one close knit family, the authors suggest that how it accommodated the changes affords an insight into the process and points to the need for further family-based research in this area. (JL). |
| Accession Number | CPA-110526007 A |
| Classmark | EA: SJ: DS:SJ: P6:SJ: DP: 3DL: 69P |
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