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'Making mistakes'
— using co-constructed inquiry to illuminate meaning and relationships in the early adjustment to Alzheimer's disease - a single case study approach | | Author(s) | John Keady, Sion Williams, John Hughes-Roberts |
| Journal title | Dementia: the international journal of social research and practice, vol 6, no 3, August 2007 |
| Pages | pp 343-364 |
| Source | http://www.dem.sagepub.com |
| Keywords | Dementia ; Diagnosis ; Early ; Adjustment ; Biographies ; Qualitative Studies ; Theory ; Methodology. |
| Annotation | This paper outlines the use of a new qualitative research approach, Co-Constructed Inquiry (CCI), to develop a personal theory of the experience of living and adjusting to an early diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease (AD). The personal theory was developed over a 21-month period (March 2004-December 2005) between Sarah, a person with Alzheimer's disease, and a clinical nurse specialist at a memory clinic in North Wales, John Hughes-Roberts. The resulting work suggested that Sarah co-constructed her experience of living with the onset of the disease as a process of 'making mistakes' and that her life story was a powerful influence in mediating and enhancing her coping behaviour. Moreover a sequence of 'balancing' acts, i.e. losing balance - finding balance - keeping balance, which Sarah visualised as the 'up and down' motion of a see-saw, both conceptualised and diagrammed her early adjustment experience. Sarah's personal theory has implications for practice and research development. (KJ/RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-071206203 A |
| Classmark | EA: LK7: 4J: DR: 67: 3DP: 4D: 3D |
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