Dressing disrupted

Negotiating Care Through the Materiality of Dress in the Context of Dementia

Dados Bibliográficos

ID2249277
AutoresChristina Buse (0000-0002-0217-8238, Department of Sociology University of York UK, autor correspondente), Julia Twigg (0000-0003-2223-7116, Social Policy, Sociology and Social Research University of Kent Canterbury UK)
Ano2018
Volume40
Fascículo2
Páginas340-352
Data de publicação2018-02-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoSociology of Health & Illness (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0141-9889 • E-ISSN: 1467-9566
EditoraWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/1467-9566.12575
PMID29464768
OpenAlexW2763778475
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas30
Referências citadas35

This paper explores how the materiality of dress mediates and shapes practices of care in the context of dementia. Earlier research called for an approach to conceptualising care that recognised the role played by everyday artefacts. We extend this to a consideration of dress and dressing the body in relation to people with dementia that involves the direct manipulation of material objects, as well as the materiality of bodies. The paper draws on an ESRC funded study Dementia and Dress, which examined experiences of dress for people with dementia, families and care-workers using ethnographic and qualitative methods. Our analysis explores the process of dressing the body, the physicality of guiding and manipulating bodies into clothing, dealing with fabrics and bodies which 'act back' and are resistant to the process of dressing. We consider how the materiality of clothing can constrain or enable practices of care, exploring tensions between garments that support ease of dressing and those that sustain identity. Examining negotiations around dress also reveals tensions between competing 'logics' of care (Mol

Aesthetics · Art · Clothing · Context (archaeology · Dementia · Ethnography · Materiality (auditing · Negotiation · Political science · Social science · Sociology · Anthropology · Body Image and Dysmorphia Studies · Crafts, Textile, and Design · Fashion and Cultural Textiles · History · Law · Medicine · Psychology