Buse, Christina orcid.org/0000-0002-0217-8238 and Twigg, Julia (2018) Dressing disrupted:negotiating care through the materiality of dress in the context of dementia. Sociology of Health and Illness. pp. 340-352. ISSN 1467-9566
Abstract
This paper explores how the materiality of dress mediates and shapes practices of care in the context of dementia. Earlier research called for an approach to conceptualising care that recognised the role played by everyday artefacts. We extend this to a consideration of dress and dressing the body in relation to people with dementia that involves the direct manipulation of material objects, as well as the materiality of bodies. The paper draws on an ESRC funded study Dementia and Dress, which examined experiences of dress for people with dementia, families and care-workers using ethnographic and qualitative methods. Our analysis explores the process of dressing the body, the physicality of guiding and manipulating bodies into clothing, dealing with fabrics and bodies which ‘act back’ and are resistant to the process of dressing. We consider how the materiality of clothing can constrain or enable practices of care, exploring tensions between garments that support ease of dressing and those that sustain identity. Examining negotiations around dress also reveals tensions between competing ‘logics’ of care (Mol 2008).
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | ©2018 The Authors. |
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Institution: | The University of York |
Academic Units: | The University of York > Faculty of Social Sciences (York) > Sociology (York) |
Depositing User: | Pure (York) |
Date Deposited: | 01 Feb 2018 16:20 |
Last Modified: | 16 Oct 2024 13:40 |
Published Version: | https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9566.12575 |
Status: | Published |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1111/1467-9566.12575 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:126961 |
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