Tag / elderly care
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From “Senile Old Fool” to “Alzheimer’s Patient”
A Brief Look Back at a Great Misunderstanding If the history of Alzheimer’s disease were a fairy tale, a short story, we could tell it in three acts. In the first, we…
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“A Matter of Time”: Time and Temporalities in Senior Care Facilities
“I know what time is, as long as no one asks me to explain it,” wrote Saint Augustine in his Confessions back in the Middle Ages [1]. Resistant to definition, and in…
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On Dementia and Truth
In one of the most memorable scenes of Georgios Vizyinos’ story “The Only Journey of His Life,” the young narrator reunites with his grandfather after a long absence. They embrace, weep, kiss…
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Beyond the Beaten Path: The Psychologist’s Role in Senior Care Settings
Fifteen years ago, psychologists working in elder care facilities were a rarity. The various settings , nursing homes, care homes, assisted living facilities , turned to psychology once it became clear that…
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Listening to Those Who Call Out
When you walk into a space that houses older adults, what do you hear? What is the soundscape of a facility dedicated to those who, having raised children and grandchildren, now find…
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‘I Am Who I Am’: Preserving Identity in Dementia
What frightens us most about dementia? What is it that makes it so painful, both for those living with it and for those who care for them? The situation is such that…
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Humour, the Ageless
“There is no comic outside what is strictly human.” Henri Bergson (i) How would we represent the dark and the foreboding? If we were novelists or essayists, masters of verse or playwrights,…
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Who’s Afraid of the Elderly?
What words do we have in our language to talk about older people? And if each word is not quite as neutral as a dictionary entry might suggest, but carries its own…
