Re-engaging with places
| Autor: | Nicky Theunissen, Louise Meijering, Ant T. Lettinga |
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| Přispěvatelé: | Urban and Regional Studies Institute |
| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
| Předmět: |
Adult
Male REHABILITATION Health (social science) NARRATIVES Sense of place medicine.medical_treatment PARTICIPATION Developmental psychology Interviews as Topic 03 medical and health sciences Personality changes 0302 clinical medicine History and Philosophy of Science Identity PEOPLE Qualitative research medicine Humans Narrative 030212 general & internal medicine Survivors Brain injury HOME Acquired brain injury Aged Rehabilitation 030503 health policy & services DISABILITY The Netherlands Middle Aged medicine.disease SELF LIFE Social Class Brain Injuries Female Personal experience HEALTH Thematic analysis 0305 other medical science Psychology human activities STROKE |
| Zdroj: | Social Science and Medicine, 231, 22-30. Elsevier |
| ISSN: | 1873-5347 0277-9536 |
| Popis: | Acquired Brain Injury (ABI) is one of the most common causes of disability and death in adults worldwide. After a period of rehabilitation, many ABI survivors still face complex mind/body conditions when they try to take up their former life again. Besides lasting visible impairments such as weakness and loss of body balance, there are often less obvious disabilities such as extreme fatigue, hypersensitivity for stimuli, memory, concentration and attention problems or personality changes. The aim of this paper is to understand how ABI survivors and their significant others renegotiate their engagements with everyday places, using the concepts of bio-geo-graphical disruption and flow. We conducted in-depth interviews and did a place-mapping exercise with 18 adult ABI survivors and their significant others. The data were analysed according to the principles of thematic analysis, with use of Atlas.ti. In the struggles of ABI survivors' relations with place, our findings show diversity in personal experiences and strategies, as well as commonalities at a more general level. First, having access to meaningful places, old and new, and coming to terms with the fact that some places may not be accessible anymore, appeared to be vital in the participants' process of healing. Second, the interplay or, as we call it, reciprocity, between different places can contribute to wellbeing: for instance, the security and continuity found at home may enable ABI survivors to handle a trip to a crowded city centre. Thus, by framing mind/body problems of ABI survivors in terms of a network of meaningful places rather than as a body with lost functions, our study shows how the reciprocity between multiple places has a potentially positive effect on life post-ABI. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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