Nicole C.

Campillo BSN3-13E

Organizational narratives in rehabilitation-focused dementia care – Negotiating

identities, interventions and personhood
Rehabilitation is increasingly being introduced in dementia care but studies
highlight extensive heterogeneity in practices, conceptual confusion and divergent
perceptions of its relevance across care organizations and national contexts. As this
have implications for development of dementia care as well as for people with
dementia’s access to care it is important to study the organizational narratives and
practices in rehabilitation-oriented dementia care organizations.
The study demonstrates that symptomatic OA often affects multiple hand
joints, and is more likely to cluster by row than by ray. The disease also occurs in a
remarkably symmetrical pattern, especially in women.
Introducing rehabilitation in dementia care may amplify the organizational
polyphonic and provide a plurality of organizational identities each expressing
different perceptions of personhood and agency for people with dementia. The
organizational narratives were negotiated within a specific structural context where
national regulation and dominant discourses on economic challenges and ageing
gave precedence to some narratives more than others.

Reference: Graff, L., Timm, H., & Thuesen, J. (2023). Organizational narratives in
rehabilitation-focused dementia care–Negotiating identities, interventions and
personhood. Dementia, 22(4), 709-726.