Buse, Christina orcid.org/0000-0002-0217-8238 and Twigg, Julia (2018) Keeping up appearances:family carers and people with dementia negotiating normalcy through dress practice. In: Thomas, Gareth and Sakellariou, Dikaios, (eds.) Disability, Normalcy, and the Everyday. Routledge
Abstract
Dress forms part of the taken-for-granted routines that constitute everyday life, but can be dys-rupted in the context of disability – in this case, dementia. Drawing on qualitative research, this chapter situates dress practice as part of how people with dementia and family carers manage the disruption caused by dementia, focussing on the renegotiation of ideas of ‘normality’ and ordinariness. Maintaining ‘ordinariness’ in this context, however, becomes more than just the achievement of continuity, representing efforts to ‘pass’ and manage the public presentation of self in ways that can normalise dementia, and demonstrate how family carers are ‘coping’ and caring adequately.
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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: | 21 Mar 2018 10:20 |
Last Modified: | 13 Mar 2025 05:34 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Routledge |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:128631 |
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