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Dementia and learning: The use of tablet computers in joint activities
Linköpings universitet, Institutionen för kultur och samhälle, Avdelningen för åldrande och social förändring. Linköpings universitet, Filosofiska fakulteten.ORCID-id: 0000-0002-5449-8524
2023 (Engelska)Doktorsavhandling, sammanläggning (Övrigt vetenskapligt)Alternativ titel
Demens och lärande : Användandet av surfplattor i gemensamma aktiviteter (Svenska)
Abstract [en]

Living with dementia is generally associated with terms such as loss, confusion, and dependency; not development, agency and collaboration. Contributing to a growing body of research that acknowledges the remaining abilities of people living with dementia, and how they cope with challenges in their everyday lives, this thesis concerns a topic habitually framed by negative presumptions, namely learning. 

The risk of developing dementia increases with advancing age, and with an aging population the number of people living with dementia is expected to rise. Dementia is a complex condition that can have various underlying causes; it includes numerous diagnoses and is commonly characterized by a decline in cognitive and communicative functions. Due to its clinical connotations, people living with dementia often face negative assumptions about how they are, and what they can or cannot do. Alongside prevailing metaphors such as a return to childhood or empty shells, people living with dementia have been depicted as passive and disengaged communicators, incapable of initiating social action and asserting agency, who struggle to maintain attention in interactions. 

The aim of this thesis is to study novel learning in everyday activities for people living with dementia, taking the use of tablet computers as a case in point. Learning is approached from an interactionist perspective, where it is understood as a social and situated process, and conceptualized as changing participation in joint activities. The data used in this thesis comprises a collection of 50 video recordings where a person living with dementia, who has no previous experience of using touchscreen technologies, is using a tablet computer together with either a caregiver or another person living with dementia. The participants were asked to use the tablet computers according to their own interests, and did not receive any information regarding learning as an objective of their activities. Through four empirical studies, all using the methodological framework of multimodal conversation analysis, this thesis challenges the stereotypical belief that people living with dementia are incapable of novel learning. 

Study I shows how a woman living with dementia, over the course of six weeks, learns to perform the basic navigational steps needed to use an augmentative and alternative communication application. The analysis demonstrates how the participant's reliance on detailed information from her interlocutors gradually declined both during and across recordings. Study II highlights how people living with dementia position themselves as learners in unfamiliar joint activities. The results emphasize that the participants living with dementia publicly display their current understanding of the ongoing joint activities, introduce learning as a conversational topic, and are actively engaged in soliciting the information needed to partake. Study III shows how professional and family carers support the participants living with dementia in managing the tablet computers. The analysis reveals that the caregivers orient towards the doing of the participants with dementia, are attentive to their displayed understanding of the unfolding activities, and adapt any instructions with detailed multimodal cues if required. Study IV moves away from the dyadic constellations consisting of a person living with dementia together with a caregiver, and instead focuses on how people living with dementia manage the joint activities together with a peer. The results show that the participants treat the activities as collaborative endeavors, and orient towards the displayed competences of each other by offering or soliciting information when needed. 

Taken together, the findings from this thesis demonstrate that novel learning is possible for people living with dementia even without the use of structured interventions. The learning process is highly collaborative, and the participants actively support each other's conduct throughout the unfolding activities. Apart from possibilities for repeated participation in joint activities, procedural and agentive aspects of learning for people living with dementia are emphasized. 

Abstract [sv]

Att leva med demens förknippas vanligtvis med termer som förlust, förvirring och beroende; inte utveckling, agens och samarbete. En vanlig föreställning är att nytt lärande är ouppnåeligt för personer med demens. Genom att studera lärande, ansluter den här avhandlingen till ett växande forskningsfält som undersöker hur personer med demens nyttjar kvarvarande förmågor för att hantera de utmaningar som uppstår i vardagen. 

Risken att utveckla demens ökar med stigande ålder och med en åldrande befolkning förväntas antalet personer som lever med demens att öka. Demens är ett paraplybegrepp som innefattar en stor mängd sjukdomar som vanligtvis karaktäriseras av förändringar i kognitiva och kommunikativa förmågor. Demenssjukdomars kliniska konnotationer avspeglas inte sällan i allmänna uppfattningar om demens, och personer som lever med demens möter ofta negativa antaganden om hur de är och vad de kan eller inte kan göra. Utöver stereotypa beskrivningar som att gå i barndom eller vara ett tomt skal, finns det föreställningar om att personer med demens är oengagerade samtalspartners, oförmögna att initiera social handling, hävda agens eller upprätthålla fokus i interaktioner. 

Avhandlingens syfte är att undersöka nytt lärande i vardagen för personer som lever med demens, med användandet av surfplattor som huvudexempel. I avhandlingen undersöks lärande från ett interaktionsbaserat och situerat perspektiv, där lärande konceptualiseras som förändrat deltagande i en gemensam aktivitet. Den empiriska grunden består av 50 videoinspelningar där en person med demens, som saknar tidigare erfarenheter av tryckkänslig teknik, använder en surfplatta tillsammans med antingen en vårdgivare eller en annan person med demens. Deltagarna ombads att använda surfplattorna efter egna intressen och fick inga instruktioner gällande lärande som ett mål med sitt deltagande. Avhandlingen baseras på fyra artiklar, metodologiskt grundade i multimodal interaktionsanalys, och resultaten kontrasterar mot den stereotypa bilden av personer med demens som oförmögna till nytt lärande. 

Artikel I visar hur en kvinna med demens, över sex veckors tid, lär sig hur man utför de grundläggande stegen i en kommunikationsstödjande applikation. Analysen demonstrerar hur deltagaren gradvis blir mindre beroende av detaljerade instruktioner från sin samtalspartner. Artikel II framhäver hur personer med demens positionerar sig själva som lärande individer i nya aktiviteter. Resultaten visar att deltagarna med demens explicitgör sin situerade förståelse av de pågående aktiviteterna, introducerar lärande som ett samtalsämne och är aktivt engagerade i inhämtandet av den information som de behöver för att kunna delta. Artikel III visar hur vårdgivarna stöttar deltagarna med demens i handhavandet av surfplattorna. Analysen betonar att vårdgivarna orienterar mot deltagarnas görande i aktiviteterna, är uppmärksamma på deras uppvisade förståelse och anpassar sina instruktioner med detaljerade kroppsliga indikatorer vid behov. Artikel IV undersöker hur personer med demens hanterar aktiviteten tillsammans med andra personer med demens och utan stöd från kognitivt friska deltagare. Resultaten tydliggör hur deltagarna behandlar aktiviteterna som ett gemensamt projekt och uppvisar en medvetenhet kring varandras förmågor genom att såväl erbjuda som efterfråga information när aktiviteten stannar upp. 

Sammantaget visar avhandlingens resultat att nytt lärande är möjligt för personer som lever med demens, även utan strukturerade interventioner. Lärandeprocessen är starkt kollaborativ och deltagarna stöttar aktivt varandras bidrag genom aktiviteterna. Utöver möjligheter till upprepat deltagande i gemensamma aktiviteter, framhävs vikten av kroppsliga och agensbaserade aspekter för lärandet hos personer m

Ort, förlag, år, upplaga, sidor
Linköping: Linköping University Electronic Press, 2023. , s. 92
Serie
Linköping Studies in Arts and Sciences, ISSN 0282-9800 ; 850
Nyckelord [en]
Dementia, Situated learning, Conversation analysis, Collaboration, Scaffolding
Nyckelord [sv]
Demens, Situerat lärande, Samtalsanalys, Samarbete, Stöttande
Nationell ämneskategori
Gerontologi, medicinsk/hälsovetenskaplig inriktning
Identifikatorer
URN: urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-193546DOI: 10.3384/9789180750714ISBN: 978-91-8075-070-7 (tryckt)ISBN: 978-91-8075-071-4 (digital)OAI: oai:DiVA.org:liu-193546DiVA, id: diva2:1754837
Disputation
2023-06-09, K4, Kåkenhus, Campus Norrköping, 09:00 (Engelska)
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Handledare
Tillgänglig från: 2023-05-04 Skapad: 2023-05-04 Senast uppdaterad: 2023-05-04Bibliografiskt granskad
Delarbeten
1. A person living with dementia learning to navigate an iPad: A case study
Öppna denna publikation i ny flik eller fönster >>A person living with dementia learning to navigate an iPad: A case study
2022 (Engelska)Ingår i: Disability and Rehabilitation: Assistive Technology, ISSN 1748-3107, E-ISSN 1748-3115, Vol. 17, nr 5, s. 570-579Artikel i tidskrift (Refereegranskat) Published
Abstract [en]

Purpose: This study challenges the notion that people living with dementia are unable to achieve novel learning without focussed intervention techniques. The purpose of this study is to explore how a woman living with dementia (Alzheimer’s disease) learns to use a tablet computer with support from communicative partners.

Method: The study is based on video recordings and the theoretical framework of learning as changing participation in joint activities. Quantitative and qualitative focus is on changes in the interactional organization

over the course of six weeks in the activity of using an augmentative and alternative communication application.

Results: Over time, the participant living with dementia, relies less on the expertise and explicit instructions of her communicative partners when navigating the application, and more on the immediate feedback provided by the tablet computer.

Conclusions: The findings suggest that novel learning still is possible for people living with dementia, even without the implementation of focussed interventions. This study further emphasizes the procedural nature of learning for people living with dementia as the woman’s embodied actions were carried out in an increasingly more direct fashion.

Ort, förlag, år, upplaga, sidor
Taylor & Francis, 2022
Nationell ämneskategori
Medicin och hälsovetenskap
Identifikatorer
urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-168965 (URN)10.1080/17483107.2020.1800117 (DOI)000558271500001 ()32757964 (PubMedID)2-s2.0-85089177345 (Scopus ID)
Tillgänglig från: 2020-09-04 Skapad: 2020-09-04 Senast uppdaterad: 2023-05-04Bibliografiskt granskad
2. People with dementia positioning themselves as learners
Öppna denna publikation i ny flik eller fönster >>People with dementia positioning themselves as learners
2021 (Engelska)Ingår i: Educational gerontology, ISSN 0360-1277, E-ISSN 1521-0472, Vol. 47, nr 2, s. 47-62Artikel i tidskrift (Refereegranskat) Published
Abstract [en]

Recent studies have demonstrated that people living with dementia, contrary to common believes, are capable of novel learning without structured interventions. Opportunities for learning throughout an individuals lifespan have been acknowledged as important factors in facilitating social participation and promoting wellbeing. However, little is still known about the situated practices used in the learning process for people living with dementia. This study aims to explore how people living with dementia in Swedish residential care facilities position, perceive, and assert, themselves as learners in a novel activity. The study is based on video recordings of eight people living with dementia, who for the first time use tablet computers as a social activity on a one-to-one basis with their formal caregivers. Through interaction analysis, we show how the participants living with dementia use the engagement displays of requests, accounts, formulations and metacomments to make their active undertaking in the ongoing activity public to their communication partner. Our findings suggest that people living with dementia might still perceive themselves as individuals capable of novel learning and that they are active and engaged agents in this process.

Ort, förlag, år, upplaga, sidor
TAYLOR & FRANCIS INC, 2021
Nationell ämneskategori
Gerontologi, medicinsk/hälsovetenskaplig inriktning
Identifikatorer
urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-172867 (URN)10.1080/03601277.2020.1855501 (DOI)000598220700001 ()
Tillgänglig från: 2021-01-24 Skapad: 2021-01-24 Senast uppdaterad: 2023-05-04
3. Supporting people living with dementia in novel joint activities: Managing tablet computers
Öppna denna publikation i ny flik eller fönster >>Supporting people living with dementia in novel joint activities: Managing tablet computers
2023 (Engelska)Ingår i: Journal of Aging Studies, ISSN 0890-4065, E-ISSN 1879-193X, Vol. 65, artikel-id 101116Artikel i tidskrift (Refereegranskat) Published
Abstract [en]

A bourgeoning number of studies have demonstrated that people living with dementia are capable of participating in a wide range of everyday activities when supported by care professionals or family carers. However, little remains known about the situated practices used by carers to support people living with dementia as active co-participants in novel joint activities. Taking the use of tablet computers as an example, this study focuses on the interactional organization of instructions in joint activities involving people living with dementia, who have no previous experiences of touchscreen technologies, and their carers. The study is based on forty-one video recordings of ten dyads, each comprising a person living with dementia and a carer, as they are using tablet computers with applications suited to individual interests. Drawing on multimodal interaction analysis, we show how the carers continually foster the accomplishment of their interlocutors, and rarely take over responsibility for closing an ongoing joint project themselves. Our findings suggest that the carers' instructions, realized as verbal and embodied directives, function as a form of scaffolding practice that facilitates the coordination of visual perception and embodied conduct for the participants living with dementia.

Ort, förlag, år, upplaga, sidor
Elsevier, 2023
Nyckelord
Dementia; Conversation analysis; Directives; Scaffolding; Technology; Embodiment
Nationell ämneskategori
Sociologi (Exklusive socialt arbete, socialantropologi, demografi och kriminologi)
Identifikatorer
urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-192102 (URN)10.1016/j.jaging.2023.101116 (DOI)000949478800001 ()2-s2.0-85149258881 (Scopus ID)
Tillgänglig från: 2023-03-02 Skapad: 2023-03-02 Senast uppdaterad: 2025-03-27
4. People living with dementia collaborating in a joint activity
Öppna denna publikation i ny flik eller fönster >>People living with dementia collaborating in a joint activity
2022 (Engelska)Ingår i: Learning, Culture and Social Interaction, ISSN 2210-6561, E-ISSN 2210-657X, Vol. 34, artikel-id 100629Artikel i tidskrift (Refereegranskat) Published
Abstract [en]

Recent research has stressed the collaborative competences of people living with dementia, showing how they are capable of participating in a multitude of everyday activities when supported by cognitively healthy individuals. However, little is known about the collaborative work between different people living with dementia. Accordingly, this study aims to explore how people living with dementia, without the support of a cognitively healthy interlocutor, collaborate with other people living with dementia in an unfamiliar activity. The study is based on video recordings of three dyads, each comprising two individuals living with dementia, as they are using tablet computers with reminiscence and communication aiding applications. Drawing on multimodal interaction analysis, we show how the participants living with dementia treat the activities as joint endeavors and, when needed, engage in problem-solving sequences where they make their knowledge about how to progress within the activities publicly visible to their interlocutor. Our findings suggest that people living with dementia do collaborate with each other, and that the interactional labor between different people living with dementia is more symmetrical than what has been described in joint activities involving people living with dementia and cognitively healthy individuals.Previous article in issue

Ort, förlag, år, upplaga, sidor
Elsevier, 2022
Nyckelord
Collaboration, Dementia, Peer learning, Scaffolding, ICT, Aging
Nationell ämneskategori
Sociologi (Exklusive socialt arbete, socialantropologi, demografi och kriminologi)
Identifikatorer
urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-184602 (URN)10.1016/j.lcsi.2022.100629 (DOI)000798787900004 ()
Tillgänglig från: 2022-04-27 Skapad: 2022-04-27 Senast uppdaterad: 2025-02-17Bibliografiskt granskad

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