Learning from initial reviews of multilingual graphics illustrating dementia caregiving
This study traces the initial processes in creating and assessing ‘comics,’ or graphic materials of various sorts,
which illustrate situations in dementia caregiving. Dementia care materials intended for paid caregivers need to accommodate three
related work situations (home care aides, residential care aides and nursing assistants), and be comprehensible for low-literacy
and second-language caregivers. Their creation draws on pragmatic constructs underlying an emphasis on reading oneself into the
materials and on interpersonal interaction between caregiver and recipient. While our focus here is on English, we also illustrate
our work with Filipino, Latin American Spanish, and Taiwanese Mandarin.
Article outline
- 1.Introduction and rationale
- 2.Background
- 2.1Brief statement of need
- 3.Steps in developing the U.S. caregiver guide
- 4.Assessing the caregiver guides
- 5.Expanding to second-language, immigrant, and low-literacy caregivers
- 5.1Non-English caregiver guides
- 5.1.1Taiwanese guides
- 5.1.2Filipino guides
- 5.1.3Latin American Spanish: Varying the viewing audience
- 6.Back to English: One size certainly does not fit all
- 7.Final thoughts
- Acknowledgments
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