Sass, C orcid.org/0000-0001-5155-903X, Surr, C and Lozano-Sufrategui, L (2021) Creative non-fiction in dementia: men’s experiences of sport-focused reminiscence using narrative methods. Methods in Psychology, 5. 100061. ISSN 2590-2601
Abstract
Qualitative research methodologies offer valuable insight into important aspects of the lived experience of dementia, and provide inclusion opportunities for those with moderate to severe cognitive impairment. Narrative methods such as creative non-fiction (CNF) offer an evocative method to utilise direct accounts of the experience of living with dementia, to attenuate professionals and academics to best practice approaches to supporting their needs.
Men face unique challenges in finding appropriate support to help them to maintain a sense of identity following a diagnosis of dementia. Yet, academic literature seldom uses the voices of those affected when highlighting this issue. This study presents ethnographic data written as a composite narrative using CNF, to explore how social connections are formed through a structured sports-based reminiscence intervention for men living with dementia.
This article demonstrates how the CNF approach can be applied to ethnographic data, offering a detailed description of the writing process applied in this study. In particular, we discuss in detail the ways in which CNF writing techniques have helped to enhance the communication of key mechanisms observed during fieldwork.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2021 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
Keywords: | Dementia, Ethnography, Narrative storytelling, Creative non-fiction, Sporting reminiscence |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Medicine and Health (Leeds) > School of Medicine (Leeds) > Leeds Institute of Health Sciences (Leeds) > Academic Unit of Psychiatry and Behavioural Sciences (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 23 Jun 2021 09:42 |
Last Modified: | 11 Aug 2023 15:18 |
Published Version: | https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/... |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Elsevier |
Identification Number: | 10.1016/j.metip.2021.100061 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:175483 |