Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of figures and tables
- Notes on contributors
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Introduction: Placing dementia
- 2 Understanding the meaning of neighbourhoods for people living with dementia: the value of a relational lens
- 3 Moving house with dementia
- 4 How do people with dementia manage problematic situations in public spaces?
- 5 Making and maintaining neighbourhood connections when living alone with dementia
- 6 My neighbourhood, my future ...?
- 7 Enabling the neighbourhood: a case for rethinking dementia-friendly communities
- 8 A conceptual framework of the person– environment interaction in the neighbourhood among persons living with dementia: a focus on out-of-home mobility
- 9 We’re known as ‘the girls’ around town: support, isolation and belonging for a lesbian couple living with dementia
- 10 Building community capacity for dementia in Canada: new directions in new places
- 11 The good, the challenging and the supportive: mapping life with dementia in the community
- 12 Growing back into community: changes through life with dementia
- 13 Dementia, tourism and leisure: making the visitor economy dementia friendly
- 14 Conclusion: Dementia emplaced
- Index
8 - A conceptual framework of the person– environment interaction in the neighbourhood among persons living with dementia: a focus on out-of-home mobility
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 13 May 2022
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of figures and tables
- Notes on contributors
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Introduction: Placing dementia
- 2 Understanding the meaning of neighbourhoods for people living with dementia: the value of a relational lens
- 3 Moving house with dementia
- 4 How do people with dementia manage problematic situations in public spaces?
- 5 Making and maintaining neighbourhood connections when living alone with dementia
- 6 My neighbourhood, my future ...?
- 7 Enabling the neighbourhood: a case for rethinking dementia-friendly communities
- 8 A conceptual framework of the person– environment interaction in the neighbourhood among persons living with dementia: a focus on out-of-home mobility
- 9 We’re known as ‘the girls’ around town: support, isolation and belonging for a lesbian couple living with dementia
- 10 Building community capacity for dementia in Canada: new directions in new places
- 11 The good, the challenging and the supportive: mapping life with dementia in the community
- 12 Growing back into community: changes through life with dementia
- 13 Dementia, tourism and leisure: making the visitor economy dementia friendly
- 14 Conclusion: Dementia emplaced
- Index
Summary
Introduction
The neighbourhood environment has been identified as being integral to the lives of community-dwelling persons with dementia. A safe, accessible and familiar neighbourhood can provide emotional and practical support and augment participation, empowerment, trust and belonging for people with dementia (Keady et al, 2012). However, there is limited theoretical development and empirical evidence on the relations of people with dementia and neighbourhoods explored from the perspective of people's lived experience. There is a need to (1) better understand the dynamic relationship between people with dementia and neighbourhoods, and (2) integrate the physical and psychosocial dimensions of the neighbourhood environment in people's lives (Keady et al, 2012). A major theme explored in research in this area is the out-of-home mobility of community-dwelling people with dementia (Blackman et al, 2003; Burton and Mitchell, 2006). Mobility is central to the ability to successfully perform daily routines and remain healthy, physically active and socially engaged in the neighbourhood. However, currently, there is no integrative conceptual framework that (1) focuses on the processes of out-of-home mobility of persons living with dementia in the neighbourhood, and (2) bridges these processes with individual well-being and outcomes related to their quality of life. This chapter proposes a conceptual framework that integrates the processes and outcomes, as well as the objective and subjective components of out-of-home mobility of persons living with dementia. The research questions guiding this chapter are:
1. How do person– environment interactions in the context of outof-home mobility of community-dwelling persons living with dementia influence the processes of agency and belonging?
2. How do the processes of agency and belonging in the context of out-of-home mobility influence the developmental outcomes of autonomy and identity?
The following sections will (1) discuss two key guiding frameworks in environmental gerontology; (2) highlight the key concepts from the literature on out-of-home mobility of people living with dementia; and (3) demonstrate the interrelationships between these concepts in the proposed new framework.
Guiding framework
The two guiding conceptual frameworks are the Integrative Conceptual Framework of Person-Environment Exchange and the Framework of Interplay of Belonging and Agency, Aging Well, and the Environment (Wahl and Oswald, 2010; Wahl et al, 2012; Chaudhury and Oswald, 2019).
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- Dementia and PlacePractices, Experiences and Connections, pp. 113 - 134Publisher: Bristol University PressPrint publication year: 2021