Fragile storytelling

PhD fellow Ida Marie Lind Glavind and Associate Professor Hanne Overgaard Mogensen has contributed to the journal Social Science & Medicine – Qualitative Research in Health with the research article 'Fragile storytelling: Methodological considerations when conducting ethnographic fieldwork among people with Alzheimer’s disease'.

The article discusses the possibilities and challenges of qualitative research for studying the lifeworlds of people living with dementia.

Based on fieldwork among people with Alzheimer’s disease in Denmark from 2019 to 2021, the authors argue that ethnographic methods have the potential to grasp the non-verbal presence and interaction crucial for describing 'the moods' of social encounters and people’s 'signature'.

Doing fieldwork among people with Alzheimer’s highlights the fact that knowledge creation is an ongoing dialogic process in daily life and research.

The article is published in Volume 2 of the journal Social Science & Medicine.

Read the article (open access): Fragile storytelling: Methodological considerations when conducting ethnographic fieldwork among people with Alzheimer’s disease