”Så griner vi heldigvis lidt af det”. Ægtepars erfaringer med demens i et hverdagslivs sociologisk perspektiv

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  • Tania Dræbel University College Sjælland, Campus Roskilde
  • Kirsten Teglgaard Lund University College Sjælland, Campus Roskilde
  • Anne Liveng Institut for Mennesker og Teknologi, Center for Sundhedsfremmeforskning, Roskilde Universitetet, Roskilde

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.7557/14.4105

Nyckelord:

dementia, couples, sociology of everyday life, responsibility, transition, demens, ægtepar, hverdagslivssociologi, ansvar, forandring

Abstract

“Fortunately, we laugh a bit about it”. Couples experiences with dementia in an everyday life sociological perspective

The article examines changes in the relation between spouses in married couples, where one partner has a dementia diagnosis. Seven qualitative interviews with couples are analyzed with Alfred Schutz sociology of everyday life as a theoretical framework. The analysis asks the question how spouses reinvent routines in an everyday life characterized by a growing unpredictability, and thereby creates new meaningfulness and roles. The analysis illustrates how partners orient themselves in a changed social world, and thereby manage to live an everyday life with dementia. Three modes of relation to each other and to the illness are found, which could partly be understood in connection to the seriousness of the illness: first the couple manage challenges in a marital alliance, later an agreement with new roles and tasks for the partners is established, and towards the final stages of dementia marriage is described as an asymmetrical care relationship.

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Tania Dræbel, University College Sjælland, Campus Roskilde

Lektor, Ph.D.

 

Kirsten Teglgaard Lund, University College Sjælland, Campus Roskilde

lektor, can.scient.san

Anne Liveng, Institut for Mennesker og Teknologi, Center for Sundhedsfremmeforskning, Roskilde Universitetet, Roskilde

lektor, Ph.d.

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2017-03-30

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Dræbel, T., Lund, K. T., & Liveng, A. (2017). ”Så griner vi heldigvis lidt af det”. Ægtepars erfaringer med demens i et hverdagslivs sociologisk perspektiv. Nordisk tidsskrift for helseforskning, 13(1). https://doi.org/10.7557/14.4105

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