Journal article
"Like He's a Kid": Relationality, Family Caregiving, and Alzheimer's Disease
Medical anthropology, Vol.39(1), pp.29-40
01/02/2020
DOI: 10.1080/01459740.2019.1667344
PMID: 31809197
Abstract
Spousal caregivers draw upon understandings of shifting relationality to maintain a familial understanding of their spouse with Alzheimer's disease. Working through what it means to think of an adult with Alzheimer's disease "like a child," I trace how spouses negotiate their shifting relationships across the course of Alzheimer's. While regarding adults as childlike can be perceived as dehumanizing infantilization, for families living with Alzheimer's disease, conceiving of one's spouse as like a child can actually enable processes of continued care, sustained recognition, and love to uphold personhood in the midst of often radical change.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- "Like He's a Kid": Relationality, Family Caregiving, and Alzheimer's Disease
- Creators
- Aaron T. Seaman - Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Medical anthropology, Vol.39(1), pp.29-40
- Publisher
- Routledge
- DOI
- 10.1080/01459740.2019.1667344
- PMID
- 31809197
- ISSN
- 0145-9740
- eISSN
- 1545-5882
- Grant note
- 1028600 / Directorate for Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences (10.13039/100000088) 7067 / Wenner-Gren Foundation (10.13039/100001388)
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 01/02/2020
- Academic Unit
- Center for Social Science Innovation; General Internal Medicine; Community and Behavioral Health; Internal Medicine
- Record Identifier
- 9984359818602771
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