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 […]
Месяц: Сентябрь 2015
Aren’t war stories evidence of how much men love war?
Our association of war stories with bragging leaves us with the impression that men love war — that war is a male "toy." This is the dark side. The light side is the celebration of self that compensates for the tearing down of self that prepared him to be disposable. War stories are the male […]
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. […]
TESTIMONY 3:A GROUP VIEW
The experience of women during the liberation struggle in north west Somalia, 1980-8820 Editors’ note Somalia came to the world’s attention in 1991 when the Siad Barre regime collapsed with the outbreak of war in Mogadishu but what is often overlooked is that civil war had been going on in Somalia since the end of […]
Why do men love women more than themselves, but respect themselves more than women?
Remember how we proteaed our children before we respected their ability to protea themselves? The ability to protea generates respea. But the process of proteaing comes by coping with the shadow side of the world. And with that coping comes a loss of innocence. When the man who has mastered protecting meets the innocent woman, […]
PAYING RESPECTS WITH FEELING. The Gift Exchange
When I was in boarding school we had a housemother named Miss Mallon. She was sofanatically religious she would tell children that their parents would go to hell. Because of this and other things, she was fired. All the girls in my dorm cried and carried on when they heard the news. I was supposed […]
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 […]
Can a Nursing Home Be a Home?
One key aspect of nursing homes has been largely overlooked: To what extent do residents consider a nursing home to be home? This gets to the heart of what makes people feel that the place in which they live is more than just a dwelling. On the surface, it appears that nursing homes are full […]