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In Chapter 3 we argued that in advanced dementia spoken language becomes what we called, de-centered. Support and communication can no longer be organized primarily around the use of spoken language. This means that as the person living with dementia becomes more challenged in using and understanding spoken language, communication and support must necessarily rely on other communicative resources, sometimes as a support and sometimes as an alternative. One such resource is the human body and its ability to form for instance gestures that might help to direct attention, and its ability to mimic actions and thus guide through these embodied actions.
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Hydén, LC., Ekström, A., Majlesi, A.R. (2024). Sitting Down: Embodied Directives. In: Living with Late-Stage Dementia. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-56870-1_6
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