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Dance events as a caregiver intervention for persons with dementia
Author(s) -
PaloBengtsson Liisa,
Ekman SirkkaLiisa
Publication year - 2000
Publication title -
nursing inquiry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.66
H-Index - 49
eISSN - 1440-1800
pISSN - 1320-7881
DOI - 10.1046/j.1440-1800.2000.00064.x
Subject(s) - dance , dementia , intervention (counseling) , psychology , meaning (existential) , situational ethics , hermeneutic phenomenology , lived experience , psychotherapist , developmental psychology , nursing , social psychology , medicine , psychiatry , visual arts , art , disease , pathology
Dance events as a caregiver intervention for persons with dementia The aim of the study was to illuminate the phenomenon of dance events as a caregiver intervention for persons with dementia in one nursing home as described by the caregivers. Seven caregivers were interviewed. The interviews were unstructured and conducted while the caregivers were watching a video of dance events arranged in the nursing home. The analysis was carried out using the phenomenological method developed by Giorgi. The results are presented in five consistent themes: (1) prerequisites for dance events; (2) creating and preparing different kinds of activities related to the dance events; (3) emotional arousal; (4) caregivers’ situational understanding; and (5) dance events and contextual consequences and synthesis into a general structure. The meaning of the dance events as a caregiver intervention was founded not only on the dancing itself but also encompassed the ontological state of ‘being together’.