The Affective Creativity of a Couple in Dementia Care
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The capacity to feel and express themselves in response to worldly surroundings is a defining feature of who a person living with dementia is, and can have profound effects on the ways in which they think, act and express creativity. Drawing on a year of intensive collaborative work with residents living with dementia in an Orthodox Jewish care home in London, I extend our perceptions and understandings of how a couple experiences their day-to-day lives, with particular attention paid to their affective practice in creativity. I demonstrate how the affective creativity of the couple emerges, circulates, and transforms as a spouse’s dementia develops, whilst feeling bodies continuously (re)make relations and familiarize themselves with the immediate surroundings through the making of artworks.
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44
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360–381
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Link to article including link to pdf, The Affective Creativity of a Couple in Dementia Care
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The Affective Creativity of a Couple in Dementia Care. 2020: 360–381. https://archive.jpr.org.uk/10.1007/s11013-019-09662-5
