Multilingual Interaction and Dementia

✍ Scribed by Charlotta Plejert (editor); Camilla Lindholm (editor); Robert W. Schrauf (editor)

Publisher: Multilingual Matters
Year: 2017
Tongue: English
Leaves: 259
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

This book addresses multilingual interaction in ethnoculturally diverse care and healthcare encounters involving people with dementia. It analyses the practices and actions used by interlocutors to facilitate mutual understanding, enhance social relations and assure optimal care and treatment, in spite of language and cognitive difficulties.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
Contributors
Acknowledgements
1. Multilingual Interaction and Dementia
2. Ageing as a Swedish-speaking Finn: Positioning and Language Choice at a Nursing Home
3. ‘Fear nó Bean, a Man or a Woman?’ Bilingual Encounters in Residential Eldercare in Ireland
4. Epistemic Negotiations in Interpreter-mediated Dementia Evaluations: The Cooperative Role of Patients’ Relatives
5. Creating Opportunities for Residents to Engage in Social Exchange: Brokering in Multilingual Residential Care Settings
6. Verbal and Nonverbal Turn-taking Actions of Care Staff and Residents in Linguistically Diverse Long-term Care Settings
7. Accommodation Practices in Multilingual Encounters in Swedish Residential Care
8. Training in Clinical Assessment: Proxying, Translating and Voice-over as Discursive Devices
9. Challenges and Experiences in Training Multilingual, International Direct Care Workers in Dementia Care in the United States
10. Multilingual Interaction and Dementia: Future Directions for Research and Practice
Index

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