Enacting agency: movement, dementia, and interaction

Motta-Ochoa, Rossio; Serra, Natalia Incio; Frantz, Allison; Blain-Moraes, Stefanie

doi:10.1080/17533015.2021.1894464

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“…A structure-agency framework has proved informative when examining agency for people with dementia within creative activities. Motta-Ochoa et al (2021) analysed a movement programme with people with dementia and looked at how the participants would recreate the movements prescribed by the programme but also how they would transform the structure of the movements, resist them and improvise movements collectively (Motta-Ochoa et al 2021).…”

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“…As a result, people with dementia are often assumed to 'possess weak or even no agency' (Boyle 2014(Boyle , 1130. However, as is argued by Motta-Ochoa et al (2021) 'the complexities involved in defining agency can shed light on the capacity of persons with dementia to act ' (2021, 2). It has been argued that 'nowhere is the need for genuine interdisciplinarity more evident than in research related to health and well-being' (Bhaskar, Danermark, and Price 2017, 3).…”

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Broadening and deepening the understanding of agency in dementia

Williams

Zeilig

2022

Med Humanities

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Agency has become an essential component of discussions concerning selfhood, well-being, and care in dementia studies but the concept itself is rarely clearly defined and the use of this term can be confusing and conflicting. This paper outlines some of the key ways in which agency has been conceptualised in relation to dementia, highlighting the complexities surrounding this concept and focusing on agency in a way that is tied to our ideas about citizenship, legal and human rights. Seven key dimensions of agency are examined: embodiment, emotions, sense of agency, intentional conscious action, the social context of agency, decision-making and moral responsibility. Using a critical realist approach, this paper brings together the diverse ways in which agency has been understood into an interdisciplinary, laminated understanding of agency. This model is then used in an applied example demonstrating that this model can be used to identify the ways in which an arts intervention can support the agency of people living with dementia. This paper proposes that agency is layered, multidimensional and exists on a continuum.

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Section: Dimensions Of Agencymentioning

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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Broadening and deepening the understanding of agency in dementia

Williams

Zeilig

2022

Med Humanities

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“…Arts-based practices have become an important area of focus due to their potential for social and artistic inclusion, life enrichment, well-being, and quality of life in elderly and dementia care (Chappell et al 2021;De Medeiros and Basting 2014;Herron et al 2023;Zeilig et al 2018). In dementia research, studies of dance and creativity are calling attention to the importance of the embodied expression of agency and self, with implications for new directions in practice (Kontos et al 2020a(Kontos et al , 2020bMotta-Ochoa et al 2021). As opportunities to participate in music and dance activities are increasingly mediated by technology, new questions arise as to their access and affordances for diverse abilities.…”

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Beyond Utterances: Embodied Creativity and Compliance in Dance and Dementia

Kosurko

Stevanovic

2023

Social Sciences

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Practices of creativity and compliance intersect in interaction when directing local dances remotely for people living with dementia and their carers in institutional settings. This ethnomethodological study focused on how artistic mechanisms are understood and structured by participants in response to on-screen instruction. Video data were collected from two long-term care facilities in Canada and Finland in a pilot study of a dance program that extended internationally from Canada to Finland at the onset of COVID-19. Fourteen hours of video data were analyzed using multimodal conversation analysis of initiation–response sequences. In this paper, we identify how creative instructed actions are produced in compliance with multimodal directives in interaction when mediated by technology and facilitated by copresent facilitators. We provide examples of how participants’ variably compliant responses in relation to dance instruction, from following a lead to coordinating with others, produce different creative actions from embellishing to improvising. Our findings suggest that cocreativity may be realized at intersections of compliance and creativity toward reciprocity. This research contributes to interdisciplinary discussions about the potential of arts-based practices in social inclusion, health, and well-being by studying how dance instruction is understood and realized remotely and in copresence in embodied instructed action and interaction.

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A Systematic Review of Occupational Therapy Care Programs for Dementia Patients: Accomplishments and Suggestions for Improvement

Johnson,

Kim

2024

JSWWP

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The primary goal of the present study was to critically review previous research on an increasingly important role that occupational therapy (OT) plays in dementia care. OT interventions such as cognitive training, memory strategies, and engagement in meaningful activities have been shown to improve cognitive function in individuals with dementia. The present study found that (1) strength based, (2) patient-centered, and (3) caregiver-collaborative OT interventions were significantly more effective in helping dementia patients maintain and/or improve their cognitive abilities (e.g., attention, memory, problem-solving, and decision-making skills) as well as their functional ability to perform instrumental activities of daily living including bathing, dressing, grooming, meal preparation, and managing finances. On the contrary, there is a growing need for providing occupational therapists with tailored training and education programs designed specifically for their intervention services for clients with dementia. Evidence-based interventions also need to be applied to address the specific needs of individuals with dementia. Given an exponentially growing number of dementia patients each year worldwide, it is imperative to have affordable and effective OT intervention services. The current study suggests a holistic OT intervention approach based on the biopsychosocial theoretical framework as the future of OT in dementia care.

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Enacting agency: movement, dementia, and interaction

Cited by 3 publications

References 70 publications

Broadening and deepening the understanding of agency in dementia

Broadening and deepening the understanding of agency in dementia

Beyond Utterances: Embodied Creativity and Compliance in Dance and Dementia

A Systematic Review of Occupational Therapy Care Programs for Dementia Patients: Accomplishments and Suggestions for Improvement

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