Vol. 16 in the Communication disorders across languages series.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Foreword

1. Multilingual Interaction and Dementia / Charlotta Plejert, Camilla Lindholm and Robert W. Schrauf

2. Ageing as a Swedish-speaking Finn: Positioning and Language Choice at a Nursing Home / Camilla Lindholm

3. ‘Fear nó Bean, a Man or a Woman?’ Bilingual Encounters in Residential Eldercare in Ireland / Nicole Müller

4. Epistemic Negotiations in Interpreter-mediated Dementia Evaluations: The Cooperative Role of Patients’ Relatives / Ali Reza Majlesi, Eleonor Antelius and Charlotta Plejert

5. Creating Opportunities for Residents to Engage in Social Exchange: Brokering in Multilingual Residential Care Settings / Gunilla Jansson and Cecilia Wadensjö

6. Verbal and Nonverbal Turn-taking Actions of Care Staff and Residents in Linguistically Diverse Long-term Care Settings / Jeff Small, Sing Mei Chan, Elisabeth Drance, Judith Globerman, Lorraine Ho, Wendy Hulko, Deborah O’Connor, JoAnn Perry and Louise Stern

7. Accommodation Practices in Multilingual Encounters in Swedish Residential Care / Maziar Yazdanpanah and Charlotta Plejert

8. Training in Clinical Assessment: Proxying, Translating and Voice-over as Discursive Devices / Robert W. Schrauf and Michael Amory

9. Challenges and Experiences in Training Multilingual, International Direct Care Workers in Dementia Care in the United States / Boyd Davis and Margaret Maclagan

10. Multilingual Interaction and Dementia: Future Directions for Research and Practice / Charlotta Plejert, Camilla Lindholm and Robert W. Schrauf

Index

"This book brings together international, linguistic research with a focus on interaction in multilingual encounters involving people with dementia in care and healthcare settings. The methodologies used (Conversation Analysis, Ethnography and Discursive Constructionism) capture practices on the micro-level, revealing how very subtle details may be of critical importance for the everyday well-being of participants with dementia, particularly in settings and contexts where there is a lack of a common verbal language of interlocutors, or where language abilities have been lost as a result of dementia. Chapters analyse the practices and actions employed by interlocutors to facilitate mutual understanding, enhance high-quality social relations and assure optimal care and treatment, in spite of language and cognitive difficulties, with an emphasis put on the participants’ remaining capacities, and what can be achieved between people with dementia and their interlocutors in a collaborative fashion. This book goes beyond the study of two-party communication to address multiparty and group interactions which are common in residential care and other healthcare settings and will be of interest to professionals and policy makers as well as to medical sciences and linguistics researchers and students." (Book Cover)