CARE PRACTICES RESEARCH NETWORK
RESEARCH PROJECT
Out & About With Dementia Study
Dementia & Mobilities in Public Space of Everyday Life
Funded by a SSHRC (Social Science and Humanities Research Council ) Insight Development Grant
This citizen science and ethnographic study using visual methods will begin a process of developing knowledge about how mobility – or the freedom to move through, and participate in, the world – is shaped and supported over time for people living with dementia and their families at home.
The study has the following specific aims:
To learn about how everyday mobility outside the home is arranged, maintained, and adjusted over time by people living with dementia and their families;
To understand how care infrastructures, common ideas and urban environments shape mobilities in everyday life for people living with dementia and their families.
Principal Investigator
Holly Symonds-Brown
Co-Investigator:
Dr. Chris Ceci
(University of Alberta)
Collaborator:
Dr. Jeanette Pols
(University of Amsterdam)
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Phase 1 will focus on engaging with groups of PLWD and CP as citizen scientists to map the spaces/places of their community and practices of managing the challenges of public space with dementia.
Phase 2 will focus on building individual case studies of everyday mobility over time.
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Please contact:
Holly Symonds-Brown
hsymonds@ualberta.ca