Featherstone, Katie, Boddington, Paula and Northcott, Andy (2020) Using signs and symbols to label hospital patients with a dementia diagnosis: help or hindrance to care? Narrative Inquiry in Bioethics, 10 (1). pp. 49-61. ISSN 2157-1732

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Abstract

Signs and symbols may be used in attempts to direct attention to particular aspects of patient care and hence affect how the patient is seen. An ethnography within five hospitals across England and Wales explored how everyday technologies are enrolled on acute wards to drive attention to the existence, diagnosis, and needs of people living with dementia within their ageing population. We explore how signs and symbols as everyday "technologies of attention" both produce and maintain the invisibilities of people living with dementia and of the older population within those wards and bring about particular understandings of the classification of dementia. The use and reliance on signs and symbols to aid recognition of people living with dementia may inadvertently lead to misclassification and narrow attention onto particular aspects of bedside care and "symptoms," competing with a wider appreciation of the individual care needs of people living with dementia and restricting expertise of ward staff

Item Type:	Article
Identifier:	10.1353/nib.2020.0026
Additional Information:	© 2020 by John Hopkins University Press
Subjects:	Medicine and health > Clinical medicine > Dementia
Related URLs:	Publisher
Depositing User:	Paula Boddington
Date Deposited:	27 Sep 2021 15:12
Last Modified:	06 Feb 2024 16:07
URI:	https://repository.uwl.ac.uk/id/eprint/8274

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