Jennifer McDuff’s research while affiliated with Provincial Health Services Authority, British Columbia , Canada and other places

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Walking With Meaning: Subjective Experiences of Physical Activity in Dementia
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September 2015

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Global Qualitative Nursing Research

Jennifer McDuff

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Physical activity is beneficial for people with dementia, but little research explores subjective experiences of physical activity in this population. Interpretive description guided the analysis of 26 interviews conducted with 12 people with dementia. Three themes described the subjective meaning of everyday physical activity: Participants were attracted to activity because it improved physical well-being, provided social connections, gave opportunity to be in nature, and provided structure and focus; participants experienced impediments to activity because of physical discomfort, environmental factors, lack of enthusiasm, and memory loss; and participants made adjustments by choosing walking over other activities and by being active with others. Results show that physical activity remains important for people with dementia, although they encounter barriers. They may prefer walking with others as a form of activity. Findings could influence how nurses conceptualize wandering and suggest that walking programs could be well received by people with dementia.

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... For the most part, these crises receive political and social acceptance. Isolation, loneliness, helplessness, excessive demands, and despair, as well as the associated severe restrictions on basic rights and liberty, are characteristic of the lifeworld contexts experienced by persons with dementia and their caregivers [3][4][5][6]. ...

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Exploring the Experiences of Times Without Care and Encounters in Persons With Dementia in the Swiss and German Nursing Home and Domiciliary Care Settings: Protocol for an Ethnographic Multimethods Study
Walking With Meaning: Subjective Experiences of Physical Activity in Dementia

Global Qualitative Nursing Research