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The benefits of a person-centered social program for community-dwelling people with dementia
— interpretative phenomenological analysis | | Author(s) | Areum Han, Jeff Radel |
| Journal title | Activities, Adaptation and Aging, vol 41, no 1, 2017 |
| Publisher | Taylor and Francis, 2017 |
| Pages | pp 47-71 |
| Source | http://www.tandfonline.com |
| Keywords | Dementia ; Personality ; Person-centred care ; Recreation ; Living in the community ; Interpretation ; Qualitative Studies ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | This qualitative study aimed to explore the experience and impact of a person-centred social programme for community-dwelling people in earlier stages of dementia. Semi-structured interviews with five people with dementia and their spouses were conducted seven to eight months after the programme ended, to assess persistence of the programme's impact on people with dementia. An interview with each person with dementia went deeper and further, based on each person's salient experiences, having personally significant meaning and emotion. The present study used interpretative phenomenological analysis to support in-depth analysis of a small number of cases. Three main themes emerged for people with dementia: participation in activities supporting self-identity; the value of newly established intergenerational relationships; and empowerment (choice and control) and the student partner's attitude. These findings fill a gap in the literature, by demonstrating how a person-centred social programme was experienced by and benefited community-dwelling people with dementia. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-180126213 A |
| Classmark | EA: DK: PAA: H: K4: 4CC: 3DP: 7T |
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