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Dementia and Discourse

Term: 10/2013 to 09/2014

Project management and coordination: AP Dr phil.  Hendrik Trescher

Implementing institutions: Office for Diversity and Teaching Development; Praunheimer Werkstätten gGmbH

Associates/Partners/Contributors: Janos Klocke, (Political Scientist/Dipl.-Pol.), Teresa Hauck, BA

Financing: Presidium of Goethe University Frankfurt

Project description:

The aim was to substantiate the care and support situation for dementia patients as a cultural discourse practice and the execution of normative discourses on the topic of dementia and point out existing barriers to discourse participation.  For this purpose, guided interviews were held with experts from the professional milieu of psychosocial care and nursing for people with dementia.  The research was guided by the question of the extent to which active practice in dementia care meets the special education paradigm of self-determination.  This took the form of a preliminary study for a broader research project in which special education approaches to dementia are to be developed on the basis of the discourse-analytical deconstruction of public and scientific-medical perceptions of dementia.