Professional interactional practices in dementia care

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Gitte Rasmussen

Gitte Rasmussen is professor of social interaction at the Department of Language and Communication and director of the research centre SoPraCon (Social Practices and Cognition) at the University of Southern Denmark (SDU). Her research primarily focuses on social interactions that involve individuals who have been diagnosed with cognitive or communicative impairments resulting from e.g. neurodevelopmental disorders, acquired brain injuries and neurodegenerative disorders. Her work consists of ethnomethodological conversation analytic descriptions and analyses of the multimodal and embodied practices and methods that co-participants employ to achieve a common understanding for all practical purposes in these kinds of interaction. Since 2006 she lectures at the SDU study program in Speech and Language Therapy.Recent publications include papers in Pragmatics and Society, Journal of Pragmatics, Clinical Linguistics, and Journal of Interactional Research in Communication Disorders.

Elisabeth Muth Andersen

Elisabeth Muth Andersen is an assistant professor in Danish language and communication at the Department of Language and Communication, University of Southern Denmark, and is a member of the research center Social Practices and Cognition (SoPraCon). Her PhD explores micro-analytic methodologies to analyze online health communication. Mainly using ethnomethodological conversation analytic methodology, she has conducted research on online health communication practices as well as on interactional practices in interactions involving people with aphasia and people with dementia. Recent publications include papers in Journal of Interactional Research in Communication Disorders and Communication & Medicine - An Interdisciplinary Journal of Healthcare, Ethics and Society. For further information, visit: www.sdu.dk/ansat/elan

Elisabeth Dalby Kristiansen

Elisabeth Dalby Kristiansen, Ph.D., a postdoc at the Department of Language and Communication at the University of Southern Denmark (SDU) and a member of the Research Centre for Social Practices and Cognition (SoPraCon) at SDU. Using a multimodal ethnomethodological conversation analytic approach, she studies membership and competence as interactional phenomena. She studies interactions involving persons with dementia, including how issues of competence and membership are oriented to in such interactions. Her research also spans topics such as members’ competence in offline and online shopping, academic competence as a member’s concern, linguistic competence in a second language as well as the interactional competence of persons with communicative challenges. Recent publications include papers in Journal of Pragmatics and Research on Language and Social Practices.