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Publication details [#61512]

Cavallaro, Francesco, Mark Fifer Seilhamer, Yi Tian Felicia Chee and Bee Chin Ng. 2016. Overaccommodation in a Singapore eldercare facility. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development 37 (8) : 817–831.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Place, Publisher
Routledge

Annotation

Elderly carers' speech overadjustment in a Singaporean eldercare facility -rather patronizing, whereas adjustment eases interaction- is linked to prevalent negative (alongside positive) cultural stereotypes of aging. Overadjustment was found to qualitatively differ according to the elderly persons' physical and cognitive skills, with healthy elderly approached as school-aged children and those with dementia as infants.