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Taking Care to Play: Meaningful Communication in Dementia Care in Chinese Culture
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Author(s): Shika Card (Department of Anthropology, McGill University, Canada)and Huali Wang (Dementia Care and Research Center, Peking University Institute of Mental Health, China)
Copyright: 2015
Pages: 28
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Psychosocial Studies of the Individual's Changing Perspectives in Alzheimer's Disease
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Cordula Dick-Muehlke (University of California, Irvine, USA), Ruobing Li (University of California, Irvine, USA)and Myron Orleans (California State University, Fullerton, USA)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-8478-2.ch004
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Abstract
This chapter takes an anthropological perspective to examine how different modes of communication play a crucial role in caregiving for a person with Alzheimer's disease (AD) in the context of modern-day China and to rethink the predominant perception of AD as a condition of degeneration, loss, and disability. This chapter is based on 10 weeks of ethnographic fieldwork research in Beijing, including 13 interviews with clinicians and family caregivers, as well as observational data gathered in diverse therapeutic settings. Putting into question the common impulse to listen primarily for the semantic qualities of speech, the authors argue that alternative and experimental forms of communication make possible a different interactive space between people with AD and their caregivers. This research proposes the notion of play as a particular mode of communication that can enact new and transformative practices of care and, as a result, reconfigure and reaffirm relationships of care.
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