scholarly journals “They say this is a home”: the challenge of “home” in residential care settings for old and young

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ulrika Börjesson ◽  
Cristina Joy Torgé
Keyword(s):  
Residential Care ◽  
Sense Of Belonging ◽  
Critical Discussion ◽  
Critical Geography ◽  
Transitional Space ◽  
Shared Space ◽  
Negative Feelings ◽  
The Ideal

AbstractIn this article, we want to bolster a critical discussion of how the “home” is used in research on residential care, and additionally make sense of young and old residents’ feelings of resistance, through the lens of a critical geography of home. We illustrate how the home ideal might be provocative and frustrating for the residents, although previous studies point out that the ideal is used by staff and in policy to reassure residents of a sense of belonging and mastery. Examples from interviews with young unaccompanied boys as well as older residents living in residential care have been used and the analysis resulted in two themes: “Residents’ conflicting experiences of space” (shared space, restricted space and regulated space, and “Residents’ feelings of homelessness” (transitional space and encroached space). How the residents themselves understand the space that is called their home and why their home can stir ambivalent or negative feelings of isolation, exclusion, and homelessness, is relevant in order to avoid romanticizing home. Residents’ understanding of home can be different from the staff, a reminder that home is a much more complex notion than the rosy ideal.

scholarly journals Using argumentation theory to identify the challenges of shared decision-making when the doctor and the patient have a difference of opinion

2012 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 26 ◽  
Author(s):  
Claudia A. Zanini ◽  
Sara Rubinelli
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Dispute Resolution ◽  
Shared Decision Making ◽  
Communication Skills ◽  
Critical Discussion ◽  
Argumentation Theory ◽  
Shared Decision ◽  
Ideal Model ◽  
Difference Of Opinion ◽  
The Ideal

This paper aims to identify the challenges in the implementation of shared decision-making (SDM) when the doctor and the patient have a difference of opinion. It analyses the preconditions of the resolution of this difference of opinion by using an analytical and normative framework known in the field of argumentation theory as the ideal model of critical discussion. This analysis highlights the communication skills and attitudes that both doctors and patients must apply in a dispute resolution-oriented communication. Questions arise over the methods of empowerment of doctors and patients in these skills and attitudes as the preconditions of SDM. Overall, the paper highlights aspects in which research is needed to design appropriate programmes of training, education and support in order to equip doctors and patients with the means to successfully engage in shared decision-making.

scholarly journals Institutional constraints on strategic maneuvering in shared medical decision-making

2012 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 19-32 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Francisca Snoeck Henkemans ◽  
Dima Mohammed
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Shared Decision Making ◽  
Medical Decision Making ◽  
Critical Discussion ◽  
Medical Decision ◽  
Institutional Constraints ◽  
Treatment Preferences ◽  
Shared Decision ◽  
Basic Principles ◽  
The Ideal

In this paper it is first investigated to what extent the institutional goal and basic principles of shared decision making are compatible with the aim and rules for critical discussion. Next, some techniques that doctors may use to present their own treatment preferences strategically in a shared decision making process are discussed and evaluated both from the perspective of the ideal of shared decision making and from that of critical discussion.

Inclusive Physical Education from the Perspective of Students with Physical Disabilities

2000 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 144-160 ◽  
Author(s):  
Donna L. Goodwin ◽  
E. Jane Watkinson
Keyword(s):  
Physical Education ◽  
Focus Group ◽  
Students With Disabilities ◽  
Thematic Analysis ◽  
Sense Of Belonging ◽  
Physical Disabilities ◽  
Focus Group Interviews ◽  
Field Notes ◽  
Group Interviews ◽  
Negative Feelings

The study describes the phenomenon of inclusive physical education from the perspective of students with disabilities. The experience of 9 elementary school-aged students with physical disabilities (6 males and 3 females with a mean age of 11 years, 1 month) was captured by way of focus group interviews, field notes, and participant drawings. The thematic analysis uncovered a persistent dichotomy in how the participants experienced physical education. Good days were revealed in the themes of sense of belonging, skillful participation, and sharing in the benefits. Bad days were overshadowed by negative feelings revealed in the themes of social isolation, questioned competence, and restricted participation. The students’ experiences were discussed within the conceptual framework of ecological perception and affordance theory (Gibson, 1977, 1979).

Congreve's Mirabell and the Ideal of the Gentleman

PMLA ◽  
1964 ◽  
Vol 79 (4-Part1) ◽  
pp. 422-427
Author(s):  
Jean Gagen
Keyword(s):  
Critical Discussion ◽  
The World ◽  
Unanimous Agreement ◽  
The Ideal ◽  
The Way

Since The Way of the World was first presented in 1700, almost every conceivable issue involving this comedy has been subject to critical discussion. For some time, there has been nearly unanimous agreement that the play is a masterpiece of its kind. Yet a notable misunderstanding of what Congreve intended in his portraiture of Mirabell continues to be expressed. Mirabell is commonly but mistakenly regarded as a rake and a cad, who, in spite of his polished manners, is guilty of reprehensible behavior.

scholarly journals A Pragma-Dialectical Study of Advertising Discourse: Take Melatonin Advertisements as Case Study

2016 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 127
Author(s):  
Fan Feng
Keyword(s):  
Systematic Study ◽  
Critical Discussion ◽  
Deep Insight ◽  
Ideal Model ◽  
Advertising Discourse ◽  
New Perspective ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Fundamental Objective ◽  
The Ideal

<p align="LEFT">The fundamental objective of advertising</p><p align="LEFT">discourse is to persuade target audiences to</p><p align="LEFT">accept and purchase the advertised product,</p><p align="LEFT">thus in essence, persuasiveness is crucial</p><p align="LEFT">characteristic of advertising discourse. Actually,</p><p align="LEFT">successful persuasion usually involves</p><p align="LEFT">argumentativeness. Drawing on the research</p><p align="LEFT">framework of Pragma-Dialectics, this paper</p><p align="LEFT">attempts to explore a pragma-dialectical</p><p align="LEFT">approach to advertisement discourse on the</p><p align="LEFT">basis of the ideal model of critical discussion.</p><p align="LEFT">This approach involves two interrelated parts:</p><p align="LEFT">argumentative reconstruction and strategic</p><p align="LEFT">maneuvering analysis. Taking the case of</p><p align="LEFT">Melatonin advertisements, the pragma-dialectical</p><p align="LEFT">approach can show the argumentativeness of</p><p align="LEFT">advertisement discourse to a great extent and</p><p align="LEFT">meanwhile reveals advertisers’ manipulation of</p><p align="LEFT">dialectical reasonableness and rhetorical</p><p align="LEFT">effectiveness. Therefore, the pragma-dialectical</p><p align="LEFT">approach can not only give a deep insight into</p><p>persuasiveness and argumentativeness of</p><p align="LEFT">advertising discourse, but also provides a</p><p align="LEFT">theoretical guidance for advertisers to skilfully</p><p align="LEFT">employ dialectical strategies in advertising</p><p align="LEFT">discourse. Consequently, such approach can</p><p align="LEFT">offer a new perspective for comprehensive and</p><p>systematic study of advertisement discourse.</p>

scholarly journals Homely Residential Care: A Contradiction in Terms?

2001 ◽  
Vol 30 (3) ◽  
pp. 393-410 ◽  
Author(s):  
SHEILA PEACE ◽  
CAROLINE HOLLAND
Keyword(s):  
Pilot Study ◽  
Older People ◽  
Residential Care ◽  
Living Arrangements ◽  
Residential Homes ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Her Family ◽  
The Family ◽  
Care For Older People ◽  
The Ideal

Accommodation and care for older people is commonly thought of in relation to residential care homes: the collective settings with communal lounges and dining rooms, where older people may live what seems to be a fine balance between individual and group routines. Yet, while there have been changes to the living arrangements of people in relatively large collective groups, the ideal put forward as a basis for care settings has remained that of ‘home’, with the family model still central. With the tensions between public and private, domestic and institutional living, regulated and non-regulated settings, all too obvious, this article uses a pilot study in Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire and Hertfordshire of registered small homes with less than four residential places, often run by the proprietor and her family, to consider whether residential homes may replicate a homely environment, or whether the model has run its course.

Struggling between a sense of belonging and a sense of alienation: Residents' experiences of living in a residential care facility for older people in Sweden

2019 ◽  
Vol 39 (3) ◽  
pp. 143-151 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eva Ericson-Lidman
Keyword(s):  
Older People ◽  
Residential Care ◽  
Sense Of Belonging ◽  
Qualitative Content Analysis ◽  
Care Facility ◽  
Care Quality ◽  
Care Providers ◽  
Residential Care Facility ◽  
Residential Care Facilities

Living in residential care facilities for older people is described in both positive and negative terms. To maintain care quality of a vulnerable group in a constantly changing care context, it is important to continually describe their experiences. This qualitative study aims to describe residents’ experiences of living in a residential care facility for older people in Sweden. Six residents were interviewed and the interviews were analyzed using qualitative content analysis. The analysis resulted in nine sub-categories, two categories and one overall theme. Living in a residential care facility for older people is revealed as ‘Struggling between a sense of belonging and a sense of alienation’. It is of great importance for care providers to explore and try to understand what individuals perceive as factors for feelings of belonging, thereby preventing alienation.

The role of the judge in legal proceedings

2012 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 234-252 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eveline T. Feteris
Keyword(s):  
Rule Of Law ◽  
Critical Discussion ◽  
Ideal Model ◽  
Legal Procedure ◽  
The Rule Of Law ◽  
Legal Proceedings ◽  
Dialectical Perspective ◽  
Argumentative Activity ◽  
The Ideal

In this contribution I characterize the role of the judge in the context of the argumentative activity of legal proceeding. I describe the role of the judge from a pragma-dialectical perspective and explain in which way this role promotes a rational resolution of the dispute. I specify how a critical discussion in accordance with the ideal model is implemented in legal procedure to accomplish the institutional point, a resolution of the dispute in accordance with the Rule of Law.

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