Narrative matter? The role of narrative and relational communication in person-centred care for older persons living with frailty. Passed
Wednesday May 15, 2024 15:15 - 16:15 J2
Workshop facilitators: Linda Timm, Maria Lindström, Staffan Josephsson
Track: People of old age, Workshops
The aim of this workshop is to identify core concepts and reasoning on the potentials of narrative and relational communication in person-centred practice for older persons living with frailty. Particular focus will be on emotional and relational resources of older persons in this matter. Rationale: Narrative and relational communication is a cornerstone in person-centred practices. Further these forms of communication have been identified as central in supporting influence end everyday democracy involving the older person with frailty. However how narrative modes of communication function as resources for person-centredness in practices involving older persons living with frailty remains inadequately known. Therefore, there is a need to gather and synthesize experiences from scientists and practitioners and other stakeholders in this matter. Potential outcomes for participants: Participants will have opportunity to discuss and problematize current discourses within person-centered care. Particularly role and functioning of narrative and relational communication in achieving central values such as wellbeing, individual and social agency, and everyday democracy will be discussed. Further participants will discuss how emotional and relational resources of older persons living with frailty can be an asset in caring practices. Relevance to conference theme: This workshop has ambition to challenge practices on narrative and relational communication within health and social care for older persons living with frailty and discuss ways these modes of communication can stay relevant in meeting future challenges and needs within person-centered care.
Seminar type
Pre-recorded + On-site
Lecture type
Workshop
Conference
GCPCC
Authors
Staffan Josephsson, Linda Timm, Joakim Öhlén, Maria Lindström
Lecturers
Linda Timm Workshop facilitator
Doctor
Karolinska institutet
Linda Timm, PhD, MsGH, OT reg., is a post doctor at the Department of Neurobiology Health Sciences and Society (NVS) at the Division of Occupational Therapy in the research group led by Staffan Josephsson on Narratively Engaged Care. Linda has experience of working with implementation of complex interventions both through her doctoral project where she has been working with development, implementation and evaluation of a diabetes prevention program in socioeconomically disadvantaged areas, as well as her work with implementing a mobile phone intervention for stroke rehabilitation in Uganda as a post doctor. She has clinical experience of working with older persons living with cognitive impairments and dementia diagnosis as an OT, mostly from elderly care of Finnish migrants living in Sweden.
Maria Lindström Workshop facilitator
Ass.professor
Umeå universitet
Maria Lindström, MDr, Reg OT, is ass.professor at the dept of Epidemiology and Global Health, Umeå University. She is co-researcher and co-PI of the intervention-project NEC, developing methods and pedagogics for `Narratively Engaged Care´ in elderly care, based at Karolinska Institute. She also leads two intervention and implementation projects based at UmU, focusing on mental health: The Everyday Life Rehabilitation (ELR) model for persons with Serious Mental Illness (SMI) living in supported housing facilities, and the `Unite Youths´; a social and mental health promotive intervention for university students. She has 25 years of teaching experiences in the field of person-centered approaches, including social aspects of being human.
Staffan Josephsson Workshop facilitator
Professor
Karolinska institutet
Staffan Josephsson is Professor in the Division of Occupational Therapy, Department of Neurobiology, Care Sciences and Society at the Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm, Sweden. He earned his degree in occupational therapy at Stockholm College of Health Sciences in 1985. Between 1985 and 1989 he worked as an occupational therapist in geriatric care, in addition to studying pedagogics and theatre studies at Stockholm University.
He completed his PhD in 1994 at Karolinska Institutet, writing his thesis on everyday activities as meeting places for people with dementia. As a part of his PhD studies, he spent time at the University of Illinois at Chicago studying narrative, His work there was influenced by a shared interest in the philosophy of Paul Ricouer, who was known for combining phenomenology and hermeneutics to explain how everyday human activity shapes understanding through narrative.Professor Josephsson began his teaching and research at Karolinska Institute in 1998 and he was promoted to full professor in 2011. In 2010 he affiliated with Sør-Trøndelag University College and later the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), in Trondheim, Norway. At NTNU, he has collaborated with Professor Sissel Alsaker to develop a “narrative-in-action” approach to explore how everyday activities help people make sense of the world by integrating interpretating and communicating individual, social, structural, ideological and existential material.Dr. Josephsson’s work has also been influenced by his connections with occupational scientists in Chile and Japan, as well as in his personal life, where his community interactions as a storyteller and his involvement in the local art community continuously inform his perspectives.