Playful interaction with clowns can be understood as a form of relief from the daily exigencies of living with dementia. For us, clown performance is a mode of dialogic meaning-making in which absurd juxtapositions can carry affective sense. So, creating a defined space for sensitive clown performance may circumvent the challenges to memory of more formal reminiscence-based interrogation and the constraints of behaviour management. We will introduce leading proponents of ‘Elderclowning’, a method that accommodates delayed responses and micro signals from participants. (Thomson, 2005 in Kontos et al 2016; Balfour in McCormick, 2017) We introduce relevant theories of care, such as ‘embodied selfhood’ (Kontos, 2016). Then we interpret princi...
The work of medical clowns with the dying is poorly researched on the global scale. In the thesis, I...
Objectives: To assess the effects of elder-clowning on moderate to severe behavioral and psychologic...
In my research about dementia and its representation in contemporary theatre, I have found that work...
Elder-clowns are a recent innovation in arts-based approaches to person-centred dementia care. They ...
In this auto-ethnographic study, I focus on a special form of clowning for people at an advanced sta...
In the absence of a cure for dementia, there is an increasing recognition of the need to develop app...
Clowns seem suspect when it comes to respect. The combination of clowning and people with dementia m...
Background: As nursing homes become increasingly diverse, dementia care needs a wider range of cultu...
International audienceInterventions by clowns with an elderly public have become a field of study ov...
Aiming to illustrate the potential for puppetry as a useful resource in dementia care, the authors a...
This paper reports on a mixed methods project entitled Playful Engagement aimed at improving the qua...
In this article, I explore play in dementia care settings, specifically two types, creative play (pl...
Background: A new communication method, the "Veder method", has recently been developed. Caregivers ...
The aim of this qualitative study was to describe and investigate the effects of a programme of stan...
Dementia comprises a number of degenerative neurological diseases. It is a complex condition and eac...
The work of medical clowns with the dying is poorly researched on the global scale. In the thesis, I...
Objectives: To assess the effects of elder-clowning on moderate to severe behavioral and psychologic...
In my research about dementia and its representation in contemporary theatre, I have found that work...
Elder-clowns are a recent innovation in arts-based approaches to person-centred dementia care. They ...
In this auto-ethnographic study, I focus on a special form of clowning for people at an advanced sta...
In the absence of a cure for dementia, there is an increasing recognition of the need to develop app...
Clowns seem suspect when it comes to respect. The combination of clowning and people with dementia m...
Background: As nursing homes become increasingly diverse, dementia care needs a wider range of cultu...
International audienceInterventions by clowns with an elderly public have become a field of study ov...
Aiming to illustrate the potential for puppetry as a useful resource in dementia care, the authors a...
This paper reports on a mixed methods project entitled Playful Engagement aimed at improving the qua...
In this article, I explore play in dementia care settings, specifically two types, creative play (pl...
Background: A new communication method, the "Veder method", has recently been developed. Caregivers ...
The aim of this qualitative study was to describe and investigate the effects of a programme of stan...
Dementia comprises a number of degenerative neurological diseases. It is a complex condition and eac...
The work of medical clowns with the dying is poorly researched on the global scale. In the thesis, I...
Objectives: To assess the effects of elder-clowning on moderate to severe behavioral and psychologic...
In my research about dementia and its representation in contemporary theatre, I have found that work...