Improving Dementia Home Caregiving and Restructuring the Dementia Narrative Through Creating a Graphic Memoir and Engaging in a Psychoanalytic Narrative Research Method
Informal dementia home caregiving is viewed negatively by society and can result in caregiver depression and anxiety from burnout, potentially compromising caregiving. Caregiver creation of a graphic memoir may help to mitigate the negative dementia narrative while engaging in it, and a psychoanalyt...
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| description | Informal dementia home caregiving is viewed negatively by society and can result in caregiver depression and anxiety from burnout, potentially compromising caregiving. Caregiver creation of a graphic memoir may help to mitigate the negative dementia narrative while engaging in it, and a psychoanalytic narratology method may reduce experienced depression and anxiety associated with burnout. This investigation examines writing, illustrating, and publishing a graphic memoir by one informal dementia home caregiver. As the mother of the illustrator and the editor and publisher of this graphic memoir, I provide the perspective of this investigation based on communications with the author and illustrator. My historical analysis, in which the author participated, represents psychoanalytic narrative research, serving as the historical method. The effects of writing, illustrating, and publishing the graphic memoir were able to reduce the informal dementia home caregivers’ symptoms during the entire process and extend the effect of this endeavor until the death of the mother. Engaging in the psychoanalytic narrative research process was additionally effective in this regard. The outcomes demonstrate the viability of writing and illustrating a publishable graphic memoir for other informal dementia home caregivers and the possibility of it and the narrative research method to help decrease their depression and anxiety regarding burnout. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-c9881f7de5da4e159b8d4bc8f2d5ef4c2024-12-27T14:31:46ZengMDPI AGJournal of Ageing and Longevity2673-92592024-12-014446448810.3390/jal4040034Improving Dementia Home Caregiving and Restructuring the Dementia Narrative Through Creating a Graphic Memoir and Engaging in a Psychoanalytic Narrative Research MethodCarol Nash0History of Medicine Program, Department of Psychiatry, Temerty Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON M5S 1A1, CanadaInformal dementia home caregiving is viewed negatively by society and can result in caregiver depression and anxiety from burnout, potentially compromising caregiving. Caregiver creation of a graphic memoir may help to mitigate the negative dementia narrative while engaging in it, and a psychoanalytic narratology method may reduce experienced depression and anxiety associated with burnout. This investigation examines writing, illustrating, and publishing a graphic memoir by one informal dementia home caregiver. As the mother of the illustrator and the editor and publisher of this graphic memoir, I provide the perspective of this investigation based on communications with the author and illustrator. My historical analysis, in which the author participated, represents psychoanalytic narrative research, serving as the historical method. The effects of writing, illustrating, and publishing the graphic memoir were able to reduce the informal dementia home caregivers’ symptoms during the entire process and extend the effect of this endeavor until the death of the mother. Engaging in the psychoanalytic narrative research process was additionally effective in this regard. The outcomes demonstrate the viability of writing and illustrating a publishable graphic memoir for other informal dementia home caregivers and the possibility of it and the narrative research method to help decrease their depression and anxiety regarding burnout.https://www.mdpi.com/2673-9259/4/4/34dementiainformal home caregivingdepressionanxietyburnoutgraphic memoir |
| spellingShingle | Carol Nash Improving Dementia Home Caregiving and Restructuring the Dementia Narrative Through Creating a Graphic Memoir and Engaging in a Psychoanalytic Narrative Research Method Journal of Ageing and Longevity dementia informal home caregiving depression anxiety burnout graphic memoir |
| title | Improving Dementia Home Caregiving and Restructuring the Dementia Narrative Through Creating a Graphic Memoir and Engaging in a Psychoanalytic Narrative Research Method |
| title_full | Improving Dementia Home Caregiving and Restructuring the Dementia Narrative Through Creating a Graphic Memoir and Engaging in a Psychoanalytic Narrative Research Method |
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| title_short | Improving Dementia Home Caregiving and Restructuring the Dementia Narrative Through Creating a Graphic Memoir and Engaging in a Psychoanalytic Narrative Research Method |
| title_sort | improving dementia home caregiving and restructuring the dementia narrative through creating a graphic memoir and engaging in a psychoanalytic narrative research method |
| topic | dementia informal home caregiving depression anxiety burnout graphic memoir |
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