| Description |
1 online resource (xvii, 226 pages) |
| Contents |
Preface / Nikolas Coupland -- 1. Introduction / Peter Backhaus -- 2. Elderspeak in institutional care / Kristine N. Williams -- 3. Dementia care communication in residential facilities: Intersections of training and research / Boyd H. Davis and Mary K. Smith -- 4. Creating a positive communication environment in long term care settings / Rosemary Lubinski -- 5. Care of people with Alzheimer's Disease in New Zealand / Margaret Maclagan and Annabel Grant -- 6. Roles, relations and the loss of autonomy in caretaking of the elderly in Denmark / Trine Heinemann -- 7. A German case study on communication in migrant-in-the-family eldercare / Hilke Engfer -- 8. Institutional role play in a Japanese eldercare facility / Peter Backhaus -- 9. What peer conversations suggest for communication in elderly care / Yoshiko Matsumoto -- 10. Art, Alzheimer's Disease, and discourse: Talk in response to museum paintings / Heidi Hamilton -- 11. Using narrative arts to foster personhood in dementia / Ellen B. Ryan and Lori Schindel Martin |
| Summary |
The topic of communication in elderly care is becoming ever more pressing, with an aging world population and burgeoning numbers of people needing care. This book looks at this critical but underanalyzed area. It examines the way people talk to each other in eldercare settings from an interdisciplinary and globally cross-cultural perspective. The small body of available research points to eldercare communication taking place with its own specific conditions and contexts. Often, there is the presence of various mental/physical ailments on the part of the care receivers, scarcity of time, resour |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Older people -- Communication.
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Older people -- Social networks -- Cross-cultural studies
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Cross-cultural studies.
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Medical personnel and patient.
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Cross-Cultural Comparison
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Health Services for the Aged
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Professional-Patient Relations
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Gerontology.
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FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS -- Aging.
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Medical personnel and patient
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Cross-cultural studies
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Older people -- Communication
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Older people -- Social networks
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Altenpflege.
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Kommunikation.
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Kulturvergleich.
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Äldre -- språk.
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Äldre -- hälso- och sjukvård.
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| Genre/Form |
Cross-cultural studies
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Cross-cultural studies.
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Études transculturelles.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Backhaus, Peter, 1975-
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| LC no. |
2011293197 |
| ISBN |
9781441179852 |
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1441179852 |
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1283145472 |
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9781283145473 |
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9786613145475 |
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6613145475 |
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