Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Unit 1, Block 1.
- Phyllis Harris,
Friendship
- In order to maintain the friendship both must ...
- People first, dementia
second
- Willingness to disclose diagnosis
- Trust
- Friendship still rewarding
- Recognise strengths, while
acknowledging limitations
- Recognise the core values of the
person with dementia are still the
same
- Friendships for someone with
early-stage dementia can provide ...
- Comfort
- Support
- Meaning
- Although difficult to
maintain friendship
- Sense of self
- Goffman
- Public self - displayed to others
Private self - director of
performance
- People perform roles, interactions with others
enables us to construct a 'sense of self'
- Social order depends of people's competency to play their
roles. The slow loss of ability to retain identity, has heavy
impact on family life / roles.
- Stigma - people with 'undesirable
charactistics' are often stigmatised
- Memory important to regain 'sense of self'
- Loss of memory, has profound
impact of ones identity
- Unable to perform roles, can leave you marginalised by
social networks, resulting in social exclusion
- Charmaz
- Sense of self comes from social
interactions.
- Chronic illness can mean the loss of positive self
image, replaced by one less valued (by individual
and others)
- Sabat and Harre
- Sense of self created through language
- Self 1 - person identity, persists throughout dementia progression
- Selves 2 - roles a person plays, is lost with dementia, due to the
way person is treated by others
- Person-centred care
- Kitwood
- Came up with person centred care, arguing being totally dependant,
depersonalised people, leaving then disempowered and disabled.
- Says people with dementia need, comfort, attachment, inclusion, occupation and identity
- Considers needs of the whole person -
psychological, spirtual, physical, and social needs
- Makes person a 'partner' in
their own care
- Stigma
- Links and phelan, five
components of stigma
- Identification and labelling of differences
- Stereotyping
- Separation of stigmatised from non stigmatised
- Experiences of discrimination
- Exercise of power - charities campaign
- Relationships
- Family members may struggle to maintain personhood,
as they try to cope with changes in loved on
- People caring need to know - personal history, social world,
and build picture of person to understand care needs
- Nolan et al. Suggest quality of care is
determined by the quality of the relationship
- In early diagnosis, other people's attitudes often disable person, before dementia does.
Being treated as a person is a fundamental human right!