Месяц: Сентябрь 2015

Decision-Making Capacity and Individual Choices

Providing high-quality care for nursing home residents means putting into practice the various competence-enhancing interventions we have con­sidered relating to personal control and communi­cation. Doing so means that residents participate in making decisions about their care. But how can we make sure that residents understand what they are 175 being asked to decide, especially when […]

OF DOCTORS AND DICTIONARIES

Despite sometimes sounding as if they were mere cliches, little more than the superannuated jargon of interpersonal relations, phrases like gender role or gender identity are in fact relatively new. Before the Second World War they didn’t exist and other closely connected expressions — such as gender-bender — did not appear until the early 1980s. […]

HOW DO. WE KNOW?

How Do People Respondto Patronizing Speech? Who were the investigators, and what was the aim of the study? Older adults who live in nursing homes face many difficulties with the way people talk to (or about) them. The concept of patronizing speech, discussed in the text, captures the essence of the problem. Ryan and colleagues […]

Communicating with Residents

Have you ever been to a nursing home? If so, one of the things you may have found difficult is talk­ing with the residents, especially when interact­ing with residents who are cognitively impaired. Unfortunately, this uneasiness often results in peo­ple relying on stereotypes of older adults in general and nursing home residents in particular in […]

The impact of Lacanian psychoanalytic theory and Derrida’s theory. of deconstruction on French feminism

Weedon claims that French feminists have taken one of two approaches when attempting to make psychoanalytic theory the key to understanding the acquisition of gendered subjectivity. They have either accepted the terms of Freudian discourse, or advocated ‘psychoanalytic theory as a way of understanding the structures of masculinity and femininity, under patriarchy, together with the […]