Multilingual Interaction and Dementia

This book brings together international, linguistic research with a focus on interaction in multilingual encounters involving people with dementia in care and healthcare settings. The methodologies used (Conversation Analysis, Ethnography and Discursive Constructionism) capture practices on the micro-level, revealing how very subtle details may be of critical importance for the everyday well-being of participants with dementia, particularly in settings and contexts where there is a lack of a common verbal language of interlocutors, or where language abilities have been lost as a result of dementia. Chapters analyse the practices and actions employed by interlocutors to facilitate mutual understanding, enhance high-quality social relations and assure optimal care and treatment, in spite of language and cognitive difficulties, with an emphasis put on the participants’ remaining capacities, and what can be achieved between people with dementia and their interlocutors in a collaborative fashion. This book goes beyond the study of two-party communication to address multiparty and group interactions which are common in residential care and other healthcare settings and will be of interest to professionals and policy makers as well as to medical sciences and linguistics researchers and students.

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Contributors
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Acknowledgements
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Foreword
pp xv-xvii
- By Sinfree Makoni
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1 - Multilingual Interaction and Dementia
pp 1-22
- By Charlotta Plejert, Camilla Lindholm, Robert W. Schrauf
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2 - Ageing as a Swedish-speaking Finn: Positioning and Language Choice at a Nursing Home
pp 23-51
- By Camilla Lindholm
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3 - ‘Fear nó Bean, a Man or a Woman?’ Bilingual Encounters in Residential Eldercare in Ireland
pp 52-73
- By Nicole Müller
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4 - Epistemic Negotiations in Interpreter-mediated Dementia Evaluations: The Cooperative Role of Patients’ Relatives
pp 74-102
- By Ali Reza Majlesi, Eleonor Antelius, Charlotta Plejert
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5 - Creating Opportunities for Residents to Engage in Social Exchange: Brokering in Multilingual Residential Care Settings
pp 103-132
- By Gunilla Jansson, Cecilia Wadensjö
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6 - Verbal and Nonverbal Turn-taking Actions of Care Staff and Residents in Linguistically Diverse Long-term Care Settings
pp 133-147
- By Jeff Small, Sing Mei Chan, Elisabeth Drance, Judith Globerman, Lorraine Ho, Wendy Hulko, Deborah O’Connor, Joann Perry, Louise Stern
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7 - Accommodation Practices in Multilingual Encounters in Swedish Residential Care
pp 148-174
- By Maziar Yazdanpanah, Charlotta Plejert
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8 - Training in Clinical Assessment: Proxying, Translating and Voice-over as Discursive Devices
pp 175-205
- By Robert W. Schrauf, Michael Amory
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9 - Challenges and Experiences in Training Multilingual, International Direct Care Workers in Dementia Care in the United States
pp 206-229
- By Boyd Davis, Margaret Maclagan
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10 - Multilingual Interaction and Dementia: Future Directions for Research and Practice
pp 230-240
- By Charlotta Plejert, Camilla Lindholm, Robert W. Schrauf
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Index
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Frontmatter
pp i-iv

Contents
pp v-vi

Contributors
pp vii-xi

Acknowledgements
pp xiii-xiii

Foreword
pp xv-xvii

1 - Multilingual Interaction and Dementia
pp 1-22

2 - Ageing as a Swedish-speaking Finn: Positioning and Language Choice at a Nursing Home
pp 23-51

3 - ‘Fear nó Bean, a Man or a Woman?’ Bilingual Encounters in Residential Eldercare in Ireland
pp 52-73

4 - Epistemic Negotiations in Interpreter-mediated Dementia Evaluations: The Cooperative Role of Patients’ Relatives
pp 74-102

5 - Creating Opportunities for Residents to Engage in Social Exchange: Brokering in Multilingual Residential Care Settings
pp 103-132

6 - Verbal and Nonverbal Turn-taking Actions of Care Staff and Residents in Linguistically Diverse Long-term Care Settings
pp 133-147

7 - Accommodation Practices in Multilingual Encounters in Swedish Residential Care
pp 148-174

8 - Training in Clinical Assessment: Proxying, Translating and Voice-over as Discursive Devices
pp 175-205

9 - Challenges and Experiences in Training Multilingual, International Direct Care Workers in Dementia Care in the United States
pp 206-229

10 - Multilingual Interaction and Dementia: Future Directions for Research and Practice
pp 230-240

Index
pp 241-244

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