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Ethical practice in dementia care as an art of dwelling

Datos Bibliográficos

ID2227686
AutoresJ M Jeong (0000-0002-7429-9792, University of Manchester, autor de correspondencia)
Año2020
Volumen10
Número2
Páginas530-547
Fecha de publicación2020-09-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaHau Journal of Ethnographic Theory (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 2049-1115 • E-ISSN: 2575-1433
EditorialHAU-N.E.T (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1086/709531
OpenAlexW3017912883
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas3
Referencias citadas71

This article aims to extend the current understanding of ethical practice within a dementia context, in which people living with dementia are often taken for granted as mere beneficiaries of care, rather than as co-producers in day-to-day care practice. Building on a decade of voluntary work and a year of fieldwork (including six weeks' intensive observation of nightlife) at a Jewish care home in London, I pay attention to the affective dimension of ethical practice at the moment of sleep disturbance of a resident with dementia. Inspired by Heidegger's concept of dwelling, I understand the episode not as pathological, but as a process through which ethical subjects emerge in the making of ongoing, entangled ethical endeavors. I argue that ethical practice is neither predetermined nor random: rather, it is the way in which those involved continuously respond and attune to the ever-changing circumstances: what I call an 'art of dwelling

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