construction of dementia in terms of sinful act and divine punishment inevitably leads to stigmatising views around the condition with consequences ofsocial withdrawaland exclusion for the person living in the community and the family. From the words of a residential facility nurse in South Africa:...
1.3. Creative non-fiction Creative non-fiction is a technique for analysing and writing narratives grounded in real-life experiences (Narayan, 2007; Smith et al., 2015). CNF may be written in the first-person in the form of a memoir (Bloom, 2003; Tilden, 2004), but the existence of ri...
Through a series of 'diffractions' of our data, we consider how those living with dementia may help us to focus on learning as a response-able encounter, a co-creative emergence in a liminal space that opens towards the unforeseeable future. There are a series of field recordings that ...
I could see he wanted and needed to cry. I tried not to___his privacy, but he welcomed me in by asking. “Did you ever say good-bye to someone knowing it would be___?”“Yes.” I replied. Saying that brought back memories I had of expressing my love and___for all my Dad ha...
but in which we might participate, awakening as they do our longings, our pains, and what has been repressed. Filmmakers often took to representing the dream state with the voyeuristic distance of an invisible bedside spectator—where the proscenium chains all scenes to a stage. This was a dis...
Animator Kathrin Steinbacher draws inspiration from her grandmother and a beloved pair of old hiking boots in this emotive short.Date 5 October 2020 Words Jynann Ong Tags Work Animation Society ProcessShare Having only recently graduated from London’s Royal College of Art, Kathrin Steinbacher's ...
Results show that participants are able to use diverse and creative expressions to convey concerns and desires through their representation of the characters in their stories. However, one limitation of such studies is that the narratives produced by people with dementia are more often other-solicited...
Semantic dementia (SD) is a multimodal disorder in which patients have difficulty recognizing the significance of words, objects, faces, nonverbal sounds, and tastes, despite their normal perception of such stimuli. SD is potentially a very important test case for understanding the cognitive organizat...
Under a Creative Commons license open accessABSTRACT Two methods of interpreting the videotaped facial expressions of four patients with severe dementia of the Alzheimer type were compared. Interpretations of facial expressions performed by means of unstructured naturalistic judgments revealed episodes when ...
More broadly, we need to see increased funding in Australia and around the world for research to develop and translate treatments for the broad spectrum of childhood dementia conditions. The Conversation This article is republished fromThe Conversationunder a Creative Commons license. Read theoriginal ...