In the last decade there has been a notable increase in efforts to expand understandings of
dementia by incorporating the body and theorizing its interrelationship with the larger social …

Background COVID-19 has affected care home residents internationally, but detailed
information on outbreaks is scarce. We aimed to describe the evolution of outbreaks of …

Aims and objectives This scoping review explored:(i) the role of unregulated care providers
in the healthcare system;(ii) their potential role on interprofessional teams;(iii) the impact of …

Methods: Expert panel focus groups with 24 care providers, working in health and social
care sectors across Toronto, Ontario, Canada were conducted. Patient vignettes illustrating …

The authors revisit the troubling discourse surrounding the diagnosis of dementia. A critique
of the predominant words and images in health care literature, public discourse, and policy …

Family members and friends provide significant support for older relatives in long-term
residential care (LTRC). Yet, they occupy ambiguous positions in these settings, and their …

Sociability, interaction through which solitariness becomes togetherness or a union with
others, has largely been explored without reference to the importance of bodily sources of …

DEFORGE R and SHAW J. Nursing Inquiry 2012; 19: 83–95 Back‐and fore‐grounding
ontology: exploring the linkages between critical realism, pragmatism, and methodologies in …

Background Little is known about how the workforce influences quality in long term care
facilities for older people. Staff numbers are important but do not fully explain this …

Drawing on feminist epistemologies, this paper attends to the way the reductionist
assumptions have shaped the organization of nursing home carework in manners that are …