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Views of life and sense of identity in people with Alzheimer's disease
- Authors:
- WESTIUS Anders, KALLENBERG Kjell, NORBERG Astrid
- Journal article citation:
- Ageing and Society, 30(7), October 2010, pp.1257-1278.
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
This study aimed to elucidate the role of the view of life of people with Alzheimer's in framing their sense of identity. ‘View of life’ was interpreted as a vital aspect of sense of identity, understood as the individual's beliefs about their life history and about the attributes that characterised them. Twenty-one people with mild to moderate stages of Alzheimer's disease were interviewed about their life story. The narratives were interpreted using a phenomenological hermeneutic method. By telling their life story, the participants also narrated their view of life, i.e. their conception of reality, their central system of values and their basic emotional attitudes. By their own accounts, the origins of the narrators' central values and basic emotional attitudes were established in early life. They also expressed a sense of meaningfulness and continuity when looking back on their lives. The results indicated that for a care-giver or confidant, having knowledge of a person with dementia's view of life is valuable when seeking to confirm that person's sense of identity.
Moments of homecoming among people with advanced dementia disease in a residential care facility
- Authors:
- NORBERG Astrid, TERNESTEDT Britt-Marie, LUNDMAN Berit
- Journal article citation:
- Dementia: the International Journal of Social Research and Practice, 16(5), 2017, pp.629-641.
- Publisher:
- Sage
This study concerns moments of homecoming among people with advanced dementia disease living in a residential care facility. The authors' main finding from participant observations with nine residents was that the residents showed moments of homecoming, i.e. they alternated between verbal and/or nonverbal expressions of feeling at home and of not feeling at home. If care providers understand that they can help people with advanced dementia disease experience moments of homecoming, they can focus on aspects of care that can promote these experiences (Edited publisher abstract)