Co-creative Affordance: Rethinking "Beyond Loss" in Dementia through Co-dwelling.
Med Anthropol
; 40(1): 35-49, 2021 01.
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ABSTRACT
Based on a decade of voluntary work and a year of intensive ethnographic fieldwork in an orthodox Jewish care home in London, I demonstrate the ways in which an individual's loss of cognition, language and memory is challenged, rethought and facilitated in everyday life. Drawing on Ingold's idea of dwelling, I examine how loss is constantly negotiated and distributed in ways of becoming that are radically contingent, profoundly relational and potentially generative during an art activity in the context of co-dwelling. I refer to this as dementia-becoming. I suggest a more inclusive understanding of loss as a way of life, constitutive of life, and appreciated as a potential co-creative affordance.
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Métodos Terapêuticos e Terapias MTCI:
Terapias_mente_y_cuerpo
Assunto principal:
Arteterapia
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Demência
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Vida Independente
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Transtornos da Memória
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Casas de Saúde
Tipo de estudo:
Qualitative_research
País/Região como assunto:
Europa
Idioma:
En
Revista:
Med Anthropol
Ano de publicação:
2021
Tipo de documento:
Article
País de afiliação:
Reino Unido