Dementia and occupational therapy

Baldelli, M.V.; Boiardi, R.; Ferrari, P.; Bianchi, Samantha A.; Bianchi, M. Hunscott

doi:10.1016/j.archger.2007.01.006

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“…Dementia, however, can disrupt our relationship to material objects, including clothes (Phinney and Chesla 2003), impairing the ability to dress and choose clothing independently ( e.g. Baldelli et al 2007; Beck et al 1991). Such changes may disrupt continuity between past clothing biographies, and present identities, leading to conflict between maintaining ‘the person as they were’ and adapting to change (Twigg 2010).…”

Section: Clothing Materials Culture and Narrativementioning

confidence: 99%

Materialising memories: exploring the stories of people with dementia through dress

Buse

Twigg

2015

Ageing and Society

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In this article, we use clothes as a tool for exploring the life stories and narratives of people with dementia, eliciting memories through the sensory and material dimensions of dress. The article draws on an Economic and Social Research Councilfunded study, 'Dementia and Dress', which explored everyday experiences of clothing for carers, care workers and people with dementia, using qualitative and ethnographic methods including: 'wardrobe interviews', observations, and visual and sensory approaches. In our analysis, we use three dimensions of dress as a device for exploring the experiences of people with dementia: kept clothes, as a way of retaining connections to memories and identity; discarded clothes, and their implications for understanding change and loss in relation to the 'dementia journey'; and absent clothes, invoked through the sensory imagination, recalling images of former selves, and carrying identity forward into the context of care. The article contributes to understandings of narrative, identity and dementia, drawing attention to the potential of material objects for evoking narratives, and maintaining biographical continuity for both men and women. The paper has larger implications for understandings of ageing and care practice; as well as contributing to the wider Material Turn in gerontology, showing how cultural analyses can be applied even to frail older groups who are often excluded from such approaches.

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Section: Clothing Materials Culture and Narrativementioning

confidence: 99%

Materialising memories: exploring the stories of people with dementia through dress

Buse

Twigg

2015

Ageing and Society

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“…This also applies to clothing and dress; and there is a body of work on functionality and dress that suggests the ability to dress and choose clothing independently becomes increasingly impaired as dementia progresses (e.g. Baldelli, Boiardi, Ferrari, Bianchi & Hunscott-Bianchi, 2007;Beck, Heacock, Mercer, Walton, & Shook, 1991).…”

Section: Dementia Clothing and Materials Culturementioning

confidence: 99%

Women with dementia and their handbags: Negotiating identity, privacy and ‘home’ through material culture

Buse

Twigg

2014

Journal of Aging Studies

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The article analyses the role of handbags in the everyday lives of women with dementia. Drawing on findings from an ESRC funded UK study 'Dementia and Dress', it shows how handbags are significant to supporting the identities of women with dementia as 'biographical' and 'memory' objects, both in terms of the bags themselves, and the objects they contain. This is particularly so during the transition to care homes, where previous aspects of identity and social roles may be lost. Handbags are also significant to making personal or private space within care settings. However, dementia can heighten women's ambivalent relationship to their handbags, which can become a source of anxiety as 'lost objects', or may be viewed as problematic or 'unruly'. Handbags may also be adapted or discarded due to changing bodies, life-styles and the progression of dementia.

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“…They also stated that simply facilitating intervention might not be sufficient, but improving the skills and qualities that individual staff members bring to their interventions was important (Perrin, 1997). Occupational therapy for daily activities, such as washing, dressing sanitary services and eating improved functional scores (Baldelli et al, 2007). Previous studies also referred to the lifestyle or life balance in the field of occupational therapy (Jackson, Carlson, Mandel, Zemke, & Clark, 1998;Pentland, & McColl, 2008).…”

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Behavioral and Physiological Observations During the Day: How Patients with Advanced Dementia Spend Time in a Care Facility

Yamaguchi

Hoshiyama

2014

Asian J OT

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Objective: To clarify how patients with advanced dementia in a care facility spend time during the day through sequential observation of activities. Methods: Activities of 12 patients with dementia were observed using an original form for monitoring their behavior and applying electroencephalograms (EEGs) with electrooculograms (EOGs) to identify awake and sleep states. Results: The amount of time in an awake state was significantly longer than in the other states, although the awake/sleep rhythm fluctuated in all participants. The subjects were mainly occupied with "unpurposed period", in which they were inactive, although fully awake. Conclusion: Through reporting daily activities and awake/sleep states during the daytime in patients with dementia in a care facility, serial monitoring of behavior and the recording of biological activity revealed precise knowledge of the actual daily situation of patients with advanced dementia.

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Dementia and occupational therapy

Cited by 16 publications

References 6 publications

Materialising memories: exploring the stories of people with dementia through dress

Materialising memories: exploring the stories of people with dementia through dress

Women with dementia and their handbags: Negotiating identity, privacy and ‘home’ through material culture

Behavioral and Physiological Observations During the Day: How Patients with Advanced Dementia Spend Time in a Care Facility

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