"Play" and People Living With Dementia: A Humanities-Based Inquiry of TimeSlips and the Alzheimer's Poetry Project
"Play" and People Living With Dementia: A Humanities-Based Inquiry of TimeSlips and the Alzheimer's Poetry Project
复制标题
DOI：
10.1093/geront/gnw196
复制
发表时间：
2018-04-01
期刊：
影响因子：
5.7
通讯作者：
de Medeiros, Kate
中科院分区：
文献类型：
--
作者：
Swinnen, Aagje;de Medeiros, Kate
本文是一个以人文为基础的调查，应用Huizinga的框架homo ludens（“人的球员”）考虑“玩”的背景下，两个参与式的艺术节目（时间片和阿尔茨海默氏症的诗歌项目）的人患有痴呆症。根据这位荷兰历史学家的说法，“游戏”是人类活动的核心，也是赋予生活意义的东西。尽管对整个生命过程中的游戏进行了实证研究，但痴呆症护理中的游戏是一个相对较新的想法。此外，缺乏基于人文调查的报告，这与越来越多的参与性艺术干预的定性和定量研究相比，目标略有不同。游戏不是用来贬低和轻视痴呆症患者，而是作为一种探索表达潜力的方式，意义的创造，以及在以后的生活中建立关系。这些艺术项目在荷兰的两个寄宿护理机构Scharwyerveld和De Beyart进行了10周。通过仔细阅读这些节目的记录和笔记，我们得出了三个结论：人们再次学会了玩耍，一起玩耍有力量，玩耍经常会带来快乐的表达。总的来说，游戏的概念可能是一个有用的框架，为未来的研究创新的艺术为基础的方法来治疗痴呆症。
This paper is a humanities-based inquiry, applying Huizinga's framework of homo ludens ("man the player") to consider "play" in the context of two participatory arts programs (TimeSlips and the Alzheimer's Poetry Project) for people living with dementia. "Play," according to this Dutch historian, is at the heart of human activity and what gives meaning to life. Despite empirical research on play across the life course, play in dementia care is a relatively new idea. In addition, there is a dearth of reports based on humanistic inquiry which has slightly different goals than the growing body of qualitative and quantitative studies of participatory arts interventions. Play is not used to infantilize and trivialize people living with dementia but as a way to explore potential for expression, meaning-making, and relationship-building in later life. The arts programs were conducted at two residential care facilities, Scharwyerveld and De Beyart, in the Netherlands over 10 weeks. Close readings of the transcripts and notes from the programs resulted in three observations: people learned to play again, there is power in playing together, and play often led to expressions of joy. Overall, the notion of play may be a helpful framework for future research into innovative arts-based approaches to dementia care.