Multilingual Interaction and Dementia (EPUB) von Charlotta Plejert

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.

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Acknowledgements

Sinfree Makoni: Preface

1. Charlotta Plejert, Camilla Lindholm and Robert W. Schrauf: Multilingual Interaction and Dementia

2. Camilla Lindholm: Aging as A Swedish-Speaking Finn: Positioning and Language Choice at a Nursing Home

3. Nicole Müller: ‘Fear Nó Bean, a Man or a Woman?’ Bilingual Encounters in Residential Eldercare in Ireland

4. Ali Reza Majlesi, Eleonor Antelius and Charlotta Plejert: Epistemic Negotiations in Interpreter-Mediated Dementia Evaluations: The Co-Operative Role of Patients’ Relatives

5. Gunilla Jansson and Cecilia Wadensjö: Creating Opportunities for Residents to Engage in Social Exchange: Brokering in Multilingual Residential Care Settings

6. Jeff Small, Sing Mei Chan, Elisabeth Drance, Judith Globerman, Lorraine Ho, Wendy Hulko, Deborah O'Connor, JoAnn Perry and Louise Stern: Verbal and Nonverbal Turn-Taking Actions of Care Staff and Residents in Linguistically Diverse Long-Term Care Settings

7. Maziar Yazdanpanah and Charlotta Plejert: Accommodation Practices in Multilingual Encounters in Swedish Residential Care

8. Robert W. Schrauf and Michael Amory: Training in Clinical Assessment: Proxying, Translating and Voice-Over as Discursive Devices

9. Boyd Davis and Margaret Maclagan: Challenges and Experiences in Training Multilingual, International Direct Care Workers in Dementia Care in the US

10. Charlotta Plejert, Camilla Lindholm and Robert W. Schrauf: Multilingual Interaction and Dementia. Future Directions for Research and Practice