Moral reasoning and Alzheimer's care: Exploring complex weavings through narrative

Bartlett, Maria; Gorman, Jane; Brauner, Daniel J.; Graham, Marguerite E.; Coats, Barbara C.; Marder, Reggie; England, Suzanne E.; Miller, Baila; Gaibel, Linda; O'Shea, Bernadette; Ganzer, Carol; Poirier, Suzanne

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“…Stories, when well crafted, are spurs to the imagination, and through our imaginative participation in the created worlds, empathic forms of understanding are advanced. I suggest we look at the humanities and in particular, traditions in which story telling is the core activity of play and critique ( Bartlett et al . 1993, Huggan 1994 ).…”

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Story telling: is it really research?

Koch

1998

Journal of Advanced Nursing

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In this paper I will suggest ways in which you may consider a story as a legitimate research product. I view the story as interpreted work communicated through writing as the research product. 'Doing' interpretive research is not an easy option in research. In this paper I will focus upon some of the complexities in creating an acceptable and accessible research product. I will cover five interrelated areas: journaling, observing, listening, writing and rigour. The term 'research product' refers to the outcome of the research process. By that I mean the dissertation, the research report or the published article. The notion of legitimacy is informed by Gadamer's philosophical hermeneutics which does not show us what to do, but asks us to question what is 'going on' while researching. In this paper I ask you to consider the entire research process as a reflexive exercise which provides answers to the question: 'What is going on in methods?'. I claim that if the research product is well sign-posted, the readers will be able to travel easily through the worlds of the participants and makers of the story and decide for themselves whether the story is a legitimate research endeavour.

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Section: Story Tellingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Story telling: is it really research?

Koch

1998

Journal of Advanced Nursing

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“…Despite the sense of deja vu and astonishment at a funding situation which permits the re-invention of the wheel, there are some notable developments in family research, not least in the area of caring for needy relatives. Some authors have moved on from practical and emotional issues to examine the ethics of care-giving, including the moral reasoning which is prompted when younger people take on responsibility for their elders and the legal implications of surrogacy in the context of decisions governing the ending of life (Bartlett et al 1993, Jecker 1991, English 1991, Fry 1991, High 1991.…”

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Continuity and Change in the Study of Family Relationships

Jerrome

1996

Ageing and Society

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Recent work on family life in old age may be considered in several dimensions. First, it encompasses different substantive areas: parentchild relationships, care-giving, changing family forms. Second, it involves different types of discourse, which variously reflect social policy considerations, legal and ethical debates, academic discourses and prescriptive writing for professionals and older people. A third dimension consists of methodological and theoretical variations. These include synchronic and life history approaches, quantitative and qualitative methods, positivistic and phenomenological research paradigms, and cross-cultural and historical comparisons.In terms of content, an analysis of entries in Abstracts in Social Gerontology between March 1992 and March 1995 is revealing. There are substantial variations in emphasis which have changed little over the period. The general category of Primary Relationships includes the following sub-categories: family relationships, couples, singlehood, childlessness, homosexuality, friendship and social support, and caregiving. Most numerous by far are the references to caring in various forms. Abstracts on family life in general amount to half as many, and other categories such as couple relationships and childlessness are negligible. The tendency to play down the significance of family life except in the context of social support is general. It was no surprise, though disappointing none the less, that the programme of the 1995 International Association of Gerontology European Congress in Amsterdam contained little on the family lives of older people. Fewer than half-a-dozen papers featured family relationships, and they were dispersed among symposia on related topics. The only family role to receive sustained attention, that of daughter, was the focus of a symposium on daughters as care-givers.

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Narrative Therapy and Elders with Memory Loss by Elizabeth Young: Narrative Means to Different Ends

England

2010

Clin Soc Work J

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Moral reasoning and Alzheimer's care: Exploring complex weavings through narrative

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Story telling: is it really research?

Story telling: is it really research?

Continuity and Change in the Study of Family Relationships

Narrative Therapy and Elders with Memory Loss by Elizabeth Young: Narrative Means to Different Ends

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