Clothing the Clown

Creative Dressing in a Day-center for People with Dementia in the Netherlands

Datos Bibliográficos

ID4564585
AutoresRuud Hendriks (0000-0002-4381-6689, Maastricht University, autor de correspondencia)
Año2023
Volumen42
Número8
Páginas771-786
Fecha de publicación2023-11-17
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaMedical Anthropology (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0145-9740 • E-ISSN: 1545-5882
EditorialInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/01459740.2023.2263808
PMID37972248
OpenAlexW4388725866
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas1
Referencias citadas40

Creatief met clowns is a creative and art-based workshop for people living with dementia that invites participants to join in a collaborative process of creating an outfit and clothing a clown. In this article, I look at what happened in workshop sessions and how this mattered to those involved, including what participants with dementia valued about the activity - by listening to what they had to say, but also by attending to their performative, creative and affective ways of engaging in Creatief met Clowns . To further articulate values that came up in practice, I analyzed my findings in terms of the quality of psychosocial relations, the role of embodiment, material aspects, and playfulness in person-centered care. By combining an ethnographic study of art-based care-practice with a value-sensitive theoretical reflection on empirical findings, my approach offers an alternative to problematic efforts to quantify the value of art in person-centered dementia care

Active listening · Aesthetics · Art · Clothing · Creativity · Dementia · Ethnography · Performative utterance · Psychosocial · Psychotherapist · Sociology · Value (mathematics · Art Therapy and Mental Health · Diversity and Impact of Dance · Medicine · Nursing · Participatory Visual Research Methods · Psychology · Social Psychology