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Dressing disrupted
— negotiating care through the materiality of dress in the context of dementia | | Author(s) | Christina Buse, Julia Twigg |
| Journal title | Sociology of Health and Illness, vol 40, no 2, 2018 |
| Publisher | Wiley-Blackwell, 2018 |
| Pages | pp 340-352 |
| Source | onlinelibrary.wiley.com DOI: 10.1111/1467-9566.12575 |
| Keywords | Dementia ; Clothing ; Physical characteristics [elderly] ; Biological ageing ; Qualitative Studies. |
| Annotation | This paper explores how the materiality of dress mediates and shapes practices of care in the context of dementia. Earlier research called for an approach to conceptualising care that recognised the role played by everyday artefacts. The authors extend this to a consideration of dress and dressing the body in relation to people with dementia that involves the direct manipulation of material objects, as well as the materiality of bodies. The paper draws on an Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) funded study Dementia and Dress, which examined experiences of dress for people with dementia, families and care-workers using ethnographic and qualitative methods. The authors' analysis explores the process of dressing the body, the physicality of guiding and manipulating bodies into clothing, dealing with fabrics and bodies which 'act back' and are resistant to the process of dressing. They consider how the materiality of clothing can constrain or enable practices of care, exploring tensions between garments that support ease of dressing and those that sustain identity. Examining negotiations around dress also reveals tensions between competing 'logics' of care. (OFFPRINT.) (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-180309001 A |
| Classmark | EA: YW7: BA: BH: 3DP * |
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