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Exploring the relationship between community-based physical activity and wellbeing in people with dementia
— a qualitative study | | Author(s) | Alan Wright |
| Journal title | Ageing and Society, vol 38, no 3, March 2018 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press, March 2018 |
| Pages | pp 522-542 |
| Source | https://doi.org/10.1017/S0144686X16001124 |
| Keywords | Dementia ; Living in the community ; Informal care ; Keeping fit ; Walking ; Dancing ; Well being ; Qualitative Studies ; Northern England. |
| Annotation | This study sought to identify factors which influenced how a group of people with dementia living in their own homes participated in community-based physical activity and explored the effect that exercise groups, dance and walking had on their well-being. The study was conducted in a city in northern England, and a broadly ethnographic approach was adopted in which participant observation and interviews were employed. Nineteen people with dementia and seven formal and informal carers were included in the participant observation phase. Eleven people with dementia were interviewed. The analysis and interpretation of data was informed by embodiment and social constructionist theoretical perspectives. Findings suggest that a complex interplay between attitudes and beliefs, retained embodied abilities, and aspects of the physical and social environment influenced how individuals engaged in physical activity and the degree to which they experienced well-being as a result. Findings suggest that when certain factors co-exist, physical activity can provide a context within which people with dementia are able to use embodied skills in order to support fragile identities, connect with others and express themselves. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-180302204 A |
| Classmark | EA: K4: P6: CE: HSA: HNA: D:F:5HH: 3DP: 82N |
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