Narrative and identity in Alzheimer’s disease: a case study

Narrative and identity in Alzheimer’s disease : a case study

Hydén, Lars-Christer (author): Linköpings universitet,Hälsa och samhälle,Hälsouniversitetet

Örulv, Linda (author): Linköpings universitet,Hälsa och samhälle,Hälsouniversitetet

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Elsevier BV, 2009
2009
English.
In: Journal of Aging Studies. - : Elsevier BV. - 0890-4065 .- 1879-193X. ; 23:4, s. 205-214

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Abstract Subject headings

In this case study, focus is on how persons with AD use their remaining linguistic and cognitive resources, together with non-verbal aspects of the storytelling event, as resources in communicating and negotiating their identities in everyday encounters. The results of the analysis, focusing on the telling of the stories, indicate that other aspects than the temporal and referential organization of the narratives has become important resources for the teller in establishing and negotiating identity. The telling of temporally discontinuous narratives does not appear to affect or disrupt the teller's experience of some sort of a continuous sense of self and identity but are probably more a problem to persons without this kind of diagnosis. Being afflicted by AD most likely leads persons to try to invent and use alternative communicative recourses in order to sustain factors like their senses of self and identities. For researchers this makes it important to try to base their analysis on the actual organization of the talk and to focus on the functions of various responses and utterances in the interaction.

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