Meaningful Moments of Connection: How People Affected by Dementia and Their Carers Living at Home Understand, Interpret and Experience Everyday Aesthetics.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

This study considers how people affected by dementia living in their own homes understand and interpret everyday aesthetics and what relevance this holds in their everyday lives.

Methods

Nine households, comprising ten family carers and seven people living with dementia, shared their self-identified meaningful moments of connection reflective of their personal understanding and interpretation of everyday aesthetics. Data collection involved a range of creative and self-initiated approaches, including scrapbooking, photography, and elicitation interviews. Data were analysed using reflective thematic analysis.

Results

Six discrete but interlinked themes were identified, namely: (1) Connection with others; (2) Connection with materiality; (3) Connection with s

SUBMITTER: Fox S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12319174 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature