DCC – Job Talk Practice with Hailee Yoshizaki-Gibbons
November 18, 2019
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Location
Disability Cultural Center, 235 Behavioral Science Building, 1007 W. Harrison St.
Address
Chicago, IL 60607
Cost
Free
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“In The Time of Dementia”: Temporality, Care, and Confinement in Dementia Units of Nursing Homes
Hailee Yoshizaki-Gibbons
Currently, in the United States, there are nearly one million old disabled women living in nursing homes, approximately seventy percent of whom are diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of dementia (Alzheimer’s Association, 2017). The vast majority of their formal, employed caregivers are also women, and many are further marginalized by race, class, and immigrant status (Allen & Cherry, 2005; Wellin, 2018). Despite this, little is known about the experiences of old women with dementia and their caregivers in nursing homes, particularly from an intersectional perspective (Crenshaw, 1991). My dissertation, “In The Time of Dementia”: Temporality, Care, and Confinement in Dementia Units of Nursing Homes an ethnographic study of a dementia unit in a nursing home that centers the care relationships between institutionalized old women with dementia and the immigrant women of color employed to care for them. I focus specifically on temporality as a framework to understand the diverse ways old women with dementia and their caregivers are gendered, racialized, classed, aged, and disabled within the context of the dementia unit, and the ways this subjugation often occurs relationally as well as culturally and structurally. Drawing on nine months of ethnographic research in the dementia unit of a nursing home in the Chicagoland area, I analyze how time simultaneously operates to reproduce gendered, racialized, classed, aged, and disability oppressions and serves as a site of solidarity, community-building, and resistance among old women with dementia and their caregivers.
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Date posted
Nov 14, 2019
Date updated
Nov 14, 2019