Spaces, sauce and schedules: A photographic journey of aged care

Tricia King; Evonne Miller; Geraldine Donoghue

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Spaces, sauce and schedules: A photographic journey of aged care

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Spaces, sauce and schedules: A photographic journey of aged care

Tricia King, Evonne Miller and Geraldine Donoghue

Social Alternatives, Vol.38(1), pp.35-44

2019

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Abstract

Political Science

Sociology

photo documentary

photo voice

participatory arts

aged care

visual methodologies

This project used a mixed-methods photographic approach of practice-led, social documentary and participant photo voice to provide insight into the daily lives of seven older Australians living in one residential aged care facility in Brisbane. The ten selected photographs vividly capture residents' lived experience of aged care, evocatively conveying routine moments, memories and the mundane as residents retain personal control and identity through their behaviours, daily patterns and the personalisation of their rooms. The photographs are grouped into three core categories: the importance and sentiment of valued artefacts (spoons); the ways in which residents maintain personal preferences in the living of their everyday life (sauce); and coping with physical decline and associated medicalised aspects of daily care (schedules). As most people know little about aged care and hold very negative views, the ten images generated through this research are designed to help reframe expectations and help trigger a community-wide conversation about ageing and life inside aged care.

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Title: Spaces, sauce and schedules: A photographic journey of aged care
Authors: Tricia King (Author) - Queensland University of Technology
Evonne Miller (Author) - Queensland University of Technology
Geraldine Donoghue (Author) - Queensland University of Technology
Publication details: Social Alternatives, Vol.38(1), pp.35-44
Publisher: Social Alternatives
Date published: 2019
ISSN: 0155-0306; 0155-0306
Organisation Unit: School of Business and Creative Industries; University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland; School of Creative Industries - Legacy
Language: English
Record Identifier: 99450942902621
Output Type: Journal article
Research Statement: false

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