Background There has been increasing interest in dementia care in recent years, including
how practitioners, service providers and society in general can help individuals to live well …

Conceptualizing agency is a long-standing theoretical concern. Taking an
ethnomethodological and conversation analytic perspective, we explore agency as the …

Zusammenfassung Der Anteil von Menschen mit Demenz an der Gesamtbevölkerung
Deutschlands wird mittelfristig stark zunehmen und die Begegnung mit Betroffenen aufgrund …

Alzheimer's disease irrevocably challenges a person's capacity to communicate with others.
Earlier research on these challenges focused on the language disorders associated with the …

Persons with dementia sometimes confabulate (that is, utter statements unaware of their
falsity). This threatens the shared world that is normally presumed as the basis for …

This conversation analytic study investigates how couples manage conflicting knowledge
claims when one of the persons has dementia (PWD). The data are video-recordings of 16 …

People living with dementia (PLWD) are almost always admitted to the acute hospital for
reasons unrelated to their dementia, finding themselves in the unfamiliar environment of a …

This article presents a study of how co-present individuals work out the nature of embodied
engagement and disengagement displays by individuals with dementia in a Danish public …

Background: Primary progressive aphasia describes a group of three rare languageled
dementias: semantic, logopenic, and non-fluent. The small number of conversation analysis …

This article is a conversation analytic study of how one elderly person with dementia and her
interlocutors interact in a care home setting. Participation is studied in the form of responsive …