Evoking a shared past by enforcing nostalgia? On the role of media in nursing homes
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Evoking a shared past by enforcing nostalgia? On the role of media in nursing homes. / Christensen, Christa Lykke.
In: Journal of Scandinavian Cinema, Vol. 9, No. 1, 01.03.2019, p. 25-37.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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TY - JOUR
T1 - Evoking a shared past by enforcing nostalgia?
T2 - On the role of media in nursing homes
AU - Christensen, Christa Lykke
PY - 2019/3/1
Y1 - 2019/3/1
N2 - Media serve different practical, social and emotional purposes in everyday life at nursing homes. Based on observational studies and interviews with care workers at Danish nursing homes for older people, this article describes how media are integrated in everyday activities in shared spaces at nursing homes with the intention to create a safe and comfortable atmosphere where the residents feel at home. In particular, the concept of mediated nostalgia is used to consider how care workers, to the benefit of the well-being of the elderly residents, screen popular comedies. In this way they aim to stimulate residents emotionally, to evoke their memories and to create a shared past among them.
AB - Media serve different practical, social and emotional purposes in everyday life at nursing homes. Based on observational studies and interviews with care workers at Danish nursing homes for older people, this article describes how media are integrated in everyday activities in shared spaces at nursing homes with the intention to create a safe and comfortable atmosphere where the residents feel at home. In particular, the concept of mediated nostalgia is used to consider how care workers, to the benefit of the well-being of the elderly residents, screen popular comedies. In this way they aim to stimulate residents emotionally, to evoke their memories and to create a shared past among them.
KW - Faculty of Humanities
KW - cinematic memories; health and well-being; media and nursing homes; mediated nostalgia; nostalgia; shared memories
KW - cinematic memories
KW - health and well-being
KW - media and nursing homes
KW - mediated nostalgia
KW - nostalgia
KW - shared memories
U2 - 10.1386/jsca.9.1.25_1
DO - 10.1386/jsca.9.1.25_1
M3 - Journal article
VL - 9
SP - 25
EP - 37
JO - Journal of Scandinavian Cinema
JF - Journal of Scandinavian Cinema
SN - 2042-7891
IS - 1
ER -
ID: 214229657