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Old before our time
- Author:
- KEADY John
- Journal article citation:
- Alzheimers Disease Society Newsletter, November 1997, p.5.
- Publisher:
- Alzheimers Disease Society
The author discusses the three recurring needs of carers of people with dementia that emerged whilst carrying out his research. Identified needs include early diagnosis and intervention; flexible service; and compensation for financial hardship and loss.
Dementia care: family and significant others
- Authors:
- KEADY John, SWARBRICK Caroline
- Journal article citation:
- Nursing and Residential Care, 13(11), November 2011, pp.546-547.
- Publisher:
- MA Healthcare Ltd.
- Place of publication:
- London
Building on the National Dementia Strategy, this article looks at how the nine quality outcomes for people with dementia may apply to family carers or significant others in their involvement in care homes. It looks at the importance of supporting relationships, the need to support carers and involving them in the activities of a care home.
Sharing stories: a meta-ethnographic analysis of 12 autobiographies written by people with dementia between 1989 and 2007
- Authors:
- PAGE Sean, KEADY John
- Journal article citation:
- Ageing and Society, 30(3), April 2010, pp.511-526.
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
This meta-ethnographic analysis compared and contrasted the contents of 12 autobiographies written by people with dementia and published between 1989 and 2007. Of the 12 books, three authors were published twice, 5 were male, 8 were from the United States, one was Australian, and all 9 had a professional background. Eight of the authors had Alzheimer’s disease and one had fronto-temporal dementia. All the books were written by younger people with dementia (age range 38-61 years). The analysis generated five themes that linked each story which were: awareness of change; experiencing loss; standing up and bearing witness; sustaining continuity; and liberation and death. The importance of reconstructing identity appeared a pivotal process in living with the onset and progression of dementia together with maintaining key social relationships and networks.
Co-constructed inquiry: a new approach to generating, disseminating and discovering knowledge in qualitative research
- Authors:
- KEADY John, WILLIAMS Sion
- Journal article citation:
- Quality in Ageing, 8(2), June 2007, pp.27-36.
- Publisher:
- Pier Professional
- Place of publication:
- Brighton
The authors provide an overview of co-constructed inquiry (CCI), a qualitative research approach that has been under development by the authors since 2003. CCI has been produced in partnership with people with long-term conditions, their families and three clinical practitioners in North Wales, specialising in stroke care, Alzheimer's disease and Parkinson's disease. CI introduces the language of theatre into the theory building and reporting process and consists of three stages: Building the set; Performing the production; and Bringing down the curtain. People with long-term conditions represent subjective experience through the production of a life story script, a personal theory and, eventually, a collective theory. The personal theory is usually presented as a diagram or a series of diagrams. CCI sheds new light on participative methods of inquiry and in the development of co-constructed grounded theory.
Community mental health nurses in dementia care: their role and future
- Authors:
- KEADY John, ADAMS Trevor
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Dementia Care, 9(2), March 2001, pp.33-37.
- Publisher:
- Hawker
Reviews published accounts of the CMHN role in work with people with dementia and their carers, and suggests a way in which the role might develop in future.
Training together: a challenge for the future
- Authors:
- NOLAN Mike, KEADY John
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Dementia Care, September 1996, pp.10-13.
- Publisher:
- Hawker
The rise in status of dementia care and respect for its expert practitioners throws the issue of training into the spotlight. The authors open the debate with this overview of current deficits in professional education.
Selfhood in younger onset dementia: transitions and testimonies
- Authors:
- HARRIS Phyllis Braudy, KEADY John
- Journal article citation:
- Aging and Mental Health, 13(3), May 2009, pp.437-444.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
Younger people with dementia and their carers are an overlooked population for research, policy and practice attention. In this study, data were collected from both the United States and the UK in order to explore the meaning and construction of selfhood and identity. The US data collection included in-depth interviews with 23 people diagnosed with younger-onset dementia, while the UK data collection comprised 15 face-to-face interviews with younger carers of younger people with dementia; all carers were/had been caring for a younger person with dementia diagnosed through the DSM-IV-R criteria. A grounded theory analysis of the data resulted in the emergence of five themes to explain the interview data, these were: (1) identity as a worker; (2) identity of abandoned individual; (3) sexual identity; (4) family identity; and (5) identity as an individual engaged in living. Additional research is necessary to further develop the attributes and application of these identity profiles.
Neighbourhoods and dementia: an updated realist review of the qualitative literature to inform contemporary practice and policy understanding
- Authors:
- LI Xia, KEADY John, WARD Richard
- Journal article citation:
- Dementia: the International Journal of Social Research and Practice, 20(8), 2021, pp.2957-2981.
- Publisher:
- Sage
This realist review of the literature provided a contemporary understanding of neighbourhoods and dementia and described how people living with dementia and their neighbourhood interacted via ongoing place-making and remaking processes. Drawing on 44 articles, neighbourhoods were revealed to have fluid and dynamic qualities where people with dementia used their strength and resources to connect to significant people and places. The review also indicated that the person with dementia–neighbourhood relationship was underpinned by four themes: ‘home’, ‘social interactions’, ‘activities’ and ‘transportation’. Further research is encouraged to use innovative, participatory methods to explore the neighbourhood–dementia nexus in depth whilst paying close attention to social inclusion and diversity. (Edited publisher abstract)
Transforming lived places into the connected neighbourhood: a longitudinal narrative study of five couples where one partner has an early diagnosis of dementia
- Authors:
- LI Xia, KEADY John, WARD Richard
- Journal article citation:
- Ageing and Society, 41(3), 2021, pp.605-627.
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
To support people with dementia to live at home, a key national and international policy driver is to create dementia-friendly communities which draws attention to the importance of a local neighbourhood and living well with dementia. However, there is a lack of evidence about how people with dementia define and interact with their neighbourhood. This longitudinal narrative research aimed to uncover the meaning, construction and place of neighbourhood in the lives of people with dementia and their care partners through a participatory approach. Five couples, where one partner had an early diagnosis of dementia and capacity to consent, participated in the (up to) one-year mixed qualitative method study. During this time-frame, 65 home visits were conducted, resulting in over 57 hours of interview data alongside the development of other artefacts, such as neighbourhood maps, photographs, diaries and field notes. Narrative analysis was applied within and across the data-sets. This led to the emergence of three themes to describe a connected neighbourhood. First, ‘connecting to people’ is about the couples’ connections with family members, friends and neighbours through a sense of belonging, group identification and responsibilities. Second, ‘connecting to places’ shares the couples’ emotional and biographical attachment to places. Third, ‘connecting to resources’ refers to the couples actively seeking support to live independently and to retain neighbourhood connections. (Edited publisher abstract)
How might the cultural significance of storytelling in Deaf communities influence the development of a life-story work intervention for Deaf people with dementia? A conceptual thematic review
- Authors:
- YOUNG Alys, FERGUSON-COLEMAN Emma, KEADY John
- Journal article citation:
- Ageing and Society, 40(2), 2020, pp.262-281.
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
Although life-story work is an established form of support for people with dementia and their carers, culturally Deaf people who are sign language users have been excluded from this practice. There is no evidence base for the cultural coherence of this approach with Deaf people who sign, nor any prior investigation of the linguistic and cultural adaptation that might be required for life-story work to be effective for sign language users with dementia. Given the lack of empirical work, this conceptual thematic literature review approaches the topic by first investigating the significance of storytelling practices amongst Deaf communities across the lifespan before using the findings to draw out key implications for the development of life-story work with culturally Deaf people who experience dementia and their formal and informal carers (whether Deaf or hearing). The reviewed work is presented in three themes: (a) the cultural positioning of self and others, (b) learning to be Deaf and (c) resistance narratives and narratives of resistance. The article concludes that life-story work has the potential to build on lifelong storying practices by Deaf people, the functions of which have included the (re)forming of cultural identity, the combating of ontological insecurity, knowledge transmission, the resistance of false identity attribution, and the celebration of language and culture. (Publisher abstract)