Papers by Lars Christer Hyden
Journal of Aging Studies, 2014
How people with dementia collaborate with other people is an area in need of more research and co... more How people with dementia collaborate with other people is an area in need of more research and conceptualizations. Collaboration introduces a number of new possibilities and demands concerning cognitive and linguistic abilities and it is suggested that a theoretical framework that emphasize that cognitive resources are not exclusively individual, but are part of cognitive and communicative context. In this article focus is on joint activities and their collaborative organization is analyzed using an example involving persons with dementia working together with staff preparing a meal. The analysis shows that persons with dementia are able to collaborate in fairly advanced activities if they are supported in such a way that they can make use of the cognitive and linguistic resources of others, in particular cognitive functions having to do with planning and execution of actions. The organization of artifacts like kitchen tools can function as an external memory support. The results support a theoretical framework that help to understand what people can do together rather than focus on individual abilities. The results also indicate that is possible to learn how to organize collaboration involving persons with dementia by understanding how other persons abilities as well as artifacts can be used as external resources for support of cognitive and linguistic abilities.
Journal of Narrative & Life History, Jan 1, 1995
Culture, medicine and psychiatry, Jan 1, 1995
Sociology of health & illness, Jan 1, 1997
The article gives a review of the last ten years' of research on illness narratives, and organise... more The article gives a review of the last ten years' of research on illness narratives, and organises this research around certain central themes. Four aspects of illness narratives are discussed: 1. a proposed typology giving three different kinds of illness narratives -illness as narrative, narrative about illness, and narrative as illness; 2. considerations of what can be accomplished with the help of illness narratives; 3. problems connected with how illness narratives are organised; and 4. the social context of telling and its influence on the narrative. It is argued that as social scientists we can use illness narratives as a means of studying not only the world of biomedical reality, but also the illness experience and its social and cultural underpinnings.
In J. Frykman, N. Seremetakis & S. Ewert (Eds.), Identities in Pain (pp. 29-53). Lund: Nordic Academic Press. , 1998
Annual Review of Applied …, Jan 1, 1999
International Journal of Social Welfare, 8, 143-154. , 1999
Health:, Jan 1, 1998
Page 1. Suffering, hope and diagnosis: on the negotiation of chronic fatigue syndrome Lars-Christ... more Page 1. Suffering, hope and diagnosis: on the negotiation of chronic fatigue syndrome Lars-Christer Hydén Stockholm University, Sweden Lisbeth Sachs Karolinska Institute, Sweden ABSTRACT The medical interview has a ...
M. Seltzer, C. Kullberg, S. P. Olesen & I. Rostila (Eds.), Listening to the Welfare State (pp. 213-240). Aldershot: Ashgate. , 2001
Discourse Studies, Jan 1, 2006
A B S T R A C T This study is concerned with the productive aspects of confabulation as it occurs... more A B S T R A C T This study is concerned with the productive aspects of confabulation as it occurs spontaneously in dementia care, in its context, and in interaction with other care recipients. Confabulation is approached as a social and discursive event with distinct narrative features; plots and formerly established genres of plots, storylines, are used by confabulators in order to understand, manage and interact socially in the present situation. Three main functions of confabulation are discerned: 1) making sense of the current situation (sense-making); 2) maintaining a personal identity in interaction with others (self-making); and 3) organizing and legitimizing joint action in the world (world-making). The resources used by confabulating subjects are sparse and not well adjusted to changing conditions, as the number of accessible storylines is limited. This makes it difficult to apply storylines that explain the current situation satisfactorily, provide useful guidelines for how to act, as well as preserve a positive self-identity. Helping with this constitutes a major challenge in dementia care.
Journal of clinical …, Jan 1, 2004
2 0 0 4 ) Journal of Clinical Nursing 13, 562-570 Discharge planning: 'fooling ourselves?' -patie... more 2 0 0 4 ) Journal of Clinical Nursing 13, 562-570 Discharge planning: 'fooling ourselves?' -patient participation in conferences Background. The aim of discharge planning conferences (DPCs) is to co-ordinate resources and to enhance patient involvement in care in connection with relocation from hospital. DPCs can be characterized as institutional conversations, and are often executed as standard procedures, but the scientific basis for the activity is weak. Aims and objectives. The aim of this study was to illuminate and describe the communication at DPCs. Design. A purposeful and consecutive sample of eight DPCs was collected in which the future care of eight women, aged 70 years or more, was discussed. Methods. Transcribed video recordings were analysed in two steps. 'The initial analysis' aimed at describing the structure and content of the communication. This description constituted the basis for an interpretation, leading to 'the focused analysis' aiming at finding evidence for the assumptions made in the interpretation. Results. The result revealed that the participation of patients was very less the DPCs. The decisions had often already been made, and the women were expected to be pleased with the decision; institutional representatives (IRs) frequently justified their actions by referring to bureaucratic praxis. Conclusions. The women were both encouraged and excluded from participation by the IRs. This dichotomy occurred because the IRs, as professionals, struggled to simultaneously realize their caring mission and their obligation to enforce the values and rules of the institution, i.e. efficiency and rationality. Thus, IRs and patients were equally imprisoned within the institutional system. Relevance to clinical research. This result illustrates how conflicting paradigms are imbedded and reproduced by healthcare professionals in their communicative praxis. Awareness of this is a prerequisite for improvements in working procedures congruent with a caring paradigm that support patient participation.
Int. J. Social Research Methodology, Jan 1, 2003
In L. C. Hydén & J. Brockmeier (Eds.), Health, Culture and Illness: Broken Narratives (pp. 36-53). New York: Routledge. , 2008
Journal of Aging Studies, 25, 339-347., 2011
Communication and Medicine, 8, 135-144, 2011
Dementia, 12, 359-367, 2013
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