Couple Meaning-Making and Dementia: Challenges to the Deficit Model
Couple Meaning-Making and Dementia: Challenges to the Deficit Model
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夫妻意义建构与痴呆症：对赤字模型的挑战
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发表时间：
2011
影响因子：
3.2
通讯作者：
J. McGovern
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作者：
J. McGovern
通过结合关系和优势为基础的方法，文章表明，随着渐进性认知障碍的发病，语言，非语言和具体的交流可以作为生活伴侣共同照顾者的意义决策过程。这些交流可以维持一种关联感，这已被证明可以增加幸福感。本文确定了知识和实践的局限性，导致赤字的方法，目前占主导地位的领域，以痴呆症的研究和护理的差距。对未来的研究和干预措施的发展提出了建议。此外，文章挑战的理论假设的意义，主张重新审查痴呆症影响的夫妇的过程。
By combining a relationship- and strengths-based approach, the article suggests that, with the onset of progressive cognitive impairment, verbal, nonverbal, and embodied exchanges can function as meaning-making processes for life-partner co-carers. These exchanges can sustain a sense of relatedness, which has been shown to increase wellbeing. The article identifies gaps in knowledge and practice limitations that result from the deficit approach to dementia research and care that currently dominates the field. Suggestions for future research and the development of interventions are included. In addition, the article challenges theoretical assumptions about meaning-making, arguing for a reexamination of dementia-affected couplehood processes.