Living with Late-Stage Dementia

Lars-Christer Hydén is Professor in Social Psychology at Linköping University, Sweden. His research concerns how people living with dementia engage in social interaction using multimodal communicative resources as a way to sustain and negotiate everyday life and a sense of self. Anna Ekström is Associate Professor in Speech-Language Pathology and Senior Lecturer at the Department of Biomedical and Clinical Sciences at Linköping University, Sweden. A qualitative methods expert, her research focuses on populations with communicative impairments, including people with dementia. During the last ten years, she has continuously published within the field of dementia studies.Ali Reza Majlesi is Associate Professor and Senior Lecturer at the Department of Education at Stockholm University, Sweden. He conducts research on social interaction in everyday and institutional settings, involving participants with various cognitive and communicative abilities. His research focuses on embodiment and sense-making practices in social activities, encompassing face-to-face or mediated interactions.

• Introduction.- Chapter 1. What is late-stage dementia?.- Chapter 2. Thinking about communication in late-stage dementia.- Chapter 3. Analyzing interaction involving people living with late-stage dementia.- Chapter 4. Preparing food together: The role of directives.- Chapter 5. Sitting down: Embodied directives.- Chapter 6. Words and things: The affordance of things.- Chapter 7. Scrubbing potatoes: Staging and parsing.- Chapter 8. Assisted eating: Intercorporeal interaction.- Chapter 9. Conversations without words: Proto-conversation.- Chapter 10. Partner positioning: An interactional strategy.- Chapter 11. Communication for support and support for communication.