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Social Construction of Dementia: Confused Professionals?

  • ISBN-13: 9781853022579
  • Publisher: JESSICA KINGSLEY PUBLISHERS
    Imprint: JESSICA KINGSLEY PUBLISHERS
  • By Colin Palfrey, By Nancy Harding
  • Price: AUD $74.99
  • Stock: 0 in stock
  • Availability: This book is temporarily out of stock, order will be despatched as soon as fresh stock is received.
  • Local release date: 13/09/1997
  • Format: Paperback (233.00mm X 155.00mm) 224 pages Weight: 314g
  • Categories: Care of the elderly [JKSG]
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Confused Professionals outlines the limited knowledge base about dementia and the effects which that has on the design of services for people with dementia. The authors have researched designs and methods for assessing the impact of services upon service receivers, including family carers and the implications for resources.The authors have been involved in an intensive three year long evaluation of a community care service for older people with dementia. In writing this book, they call on this experience and previous experience as analysts of community care and health services, looking at the experience of users and providers alike.
Evaluating the care of people with dementia - beyond the biomedical paradigm; methodological framework - social contruction; what is dementia? - the medical model; interpreting dementia - psychological and linguistic models; the scientific construction of the 'disease' of dementia; medical diagnosis and the construction of dementia; society and the construction of dementia - the sociology of the ageing body.
In a systematic, thought-provoking and contentious way, they examine the ""knowledge"" and ""truths"" of: the medical model, the scientific construction of dementia and the sociology of the dementing body. All are scrutinised in terms of irrefutable evidence, most are found wanting. [This book] is a welcome and long overdue contribution to the ""knowledges"" of dementia.
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