TY - JOUR
AU1 - Hewer-Richards, Leah
AU2 - Goodall, Dawn
AB - This paper aims to raise awareness of the ways in which faecal incontinence can impact the provision of dementia care by examining this through the lens of stigma.Design/methodology/approachThis paper contains a scoping review of available literature relating to faecal incontinence, dementia and stigma.FindingsLiterature was organised into three themes: the origins of the stigma, the purpose of stigma and the care context.Research limitations/implicationsLimitations of this paper include the lack of literature discussing faecal incontinence and dementia in relation to stigma.Practical implicationsStigma regarding faecal incontinence has the potential to impact quality of life of people with a dementia and contributes towards the invisible work of unqualified care workers.Originality/valueStigma and faecal incontinence have only a small amount of research around them in residential dementia care.
TI - Everybody S***s: how defecation stigma reduces care quality in dementia
JF - Quality in Ageing and Older Adults
DO - 10.1108/qaoa-07-2019-0039
DA - 2020-07-15
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/emerald-publishing/everybody-s-s-how-defecation-stigma-reduces-care-quality-in-dementia-GLFS16NHpP
SP - 79
EP - 87
VL - 21
IS - 2
DP - DeepDyve
ER -