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Dementia
Published in Henry J. Woodford, Essential Geriatrics, 2022
Dementia-friendly ward environments should mirror the guidance for homes where possible. Ward equipment, mandated for infection control purposes, such as soap dispensers, elbow-operated mixer taps and enclosed toilet roll holders, can be difficult for people with dementia to use. Noise at night should be minimised (see page 23). Dementia is very common among people in hospitals, all staff looking after adults should receive appropriate training. Get to know patients as people. Life story work can help to build relationships with hospital staff.
Using Digital Photography to Support the Communication of People with Aphasia, Dementia or Cognitive-Communication Deficits
Published in Christopher M. Hayre, Dave J. Muller, Marcia J. Scherer, Everyday Technologies in Healthcare, 2019
A major focus of life story work is its use to promote person-centred care for people with dementia (Stenhouse, Tait, Hardy, & Sumner, 2013). The final product has the potential to promote respect towards and personhood for the person with dementia by providing a means of sharing – either verbally or non-verbally – life events. As with storytelling, this sharing of life stories is critical to forming and strengthening interpersonal relationships. Life story work also supports self-expression – a critical element given the loss of identity that occurs as cognitive decline progresses. A life story production provides a way for a person with dementia to connect to his/her past and, simultaneously, build and fortify new relationships with current peers and caregivers.
Death of a patient’s friend or relative
Published in Claud Regnard, Margaret Kindlen, Supportive and Palliative Care in Cancer, 2018
Claud Regnard, Margaret Kindlen
Reflecting back: for many people life-story work is a useful way to communicate significant life events, and can be seen as a vital element in helping the person bring back memories both good and bad that would otherwise be forgotten. The concept of life-story books is also acknowledged in bereavement counselling with literature explored.
Exploring attitudes of healthcare professionals towards ICT-based interventions for nursing home residents with dementia: a mixed-methods approach
Published in Contemporary Nurse, 2018
Julie Lorraine O’Sullivan, Paul Gellert, Britta Hesse, Laura-Maria Jordan, Sebastian Möller, Jan-Niklas Voigt-Antons, Johanna Nordheim
ICT-based applications (apps) can be used in various therapeutic settings. For example, apps with suitable content can be used to stimulate communication, memory, and joint activity in groups. It is applicable for life story work, and it helps brightening up the residents. … that they {residents with ADRD} come alive, literally, after being sad, and then are happy again and forget what had happened before. (MW3)Then they start talking about the past … (MW3)
“Something Born of the Heart”: Culturally Affiliated Illnesses of Older Adults in Oaxaca
Published in Issues in Mental Health Nursing, 2020
Oliva López Sánchez, Douglas C. Nance
Life Story Work, or narrative biography, has been a therapeutic method focused on finding the meaning of life. It can also be used to collect data to understand processes of health/illness/care. A life story approach brings many different but interconnected rewards for research on aging. The story of an individual life yields information about a generation related to gender, cultural and historical aspects. Life story work can illuminate forgotten or hidden aspects of past experience, bringing lives that have been marginalized, neglected and degraded to the fore (Victor, 2005). As a process, it has the capacity to make links between past lives and present experience.
Lives of Violence and Vengeance: Life Stories of Older Oaxacan Adults
Published in Issues in Mental Health Nursing, 2022
Douglas C. Nance, Oliva López Sánchez,
Life Story Work, or narrative biography, can be used to collect data to understand the life course experiences of older people. A life story approach brings together different but interconnected information in research on aging, related to gender, cultural and historical aspects of a generation (López Sánchez & Nance, 2020). Life story work can bring lives that have been marginalized, neglected and degraded to the fore and to make links between past lives and present experience (Victor, 2005).