Enabling Dwelling: Caregiving and Familiar Object Interactions amidst Cognitive Decline in Rural South Africa

As people experience cognitive decline, they make and remake their identities in practice, including through interactions with everyday objects. Facilitating object interactions thus becomes an act of care. We present ethnographic data detailing how two women with cognitive decline, who were receiv...

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Main Authors: Michelle Brear, Themby Nkovana, Lenore Manderson
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University Library System, University of Pittsburgh 2025-07-01
Series:Anthropology & Aging
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Online Access:http://anthro-age.pitt.edu/ojs/anthro-age/article/view/544
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