Preserving togetherness or ensuring safety? The dilemma of where to live and receive dementia care
Stina Engelheart, Lisa Spang · 2026
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Stina Engelheart and Lisa Spang explore, in a 2026 case study, where older immigrants with dementia want to live as the disease advances. They also ask how their families weigh home against residential care. Ageing populations grow more diverse, yet how immigrants experience dementia inside a foreign culture, and what care they wish for, remains little studied.
The team interviewed people with dementia and their relatives in two households where a husband had the disease. One couple fought to preserve togetherness as abilities faded; in the other, acting-out symptoms pushed safety ahead of staying together. Both saw moving into residential care as a deep threshold, shadowed by rigid routines, doubt about staff skill, and cultural and language mismatches. The authors ask officials to design services that protect identity and meaningful daily habits for this group.
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| CREATOR | Stina Engelheart, Lisa Spang |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 40188 |
| LICENSE | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |