Preserving the ‘‘us identity’’ through marriage commitment while living with early-stage dementia
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
Recognizing the impact of marriage commitment to living with early-stage dementia has important implications for developing proactive care for individuals with dementia and their families. This mixed method study of six couples experiencing early-stage Alzheimer’s dementia explored how married couples experienced the meaning of commitment through memory loss represented by the transitional process of pre-diagnosis, diagnosis, and post-diagnosis. Narrative analysis was used to identify shared themes from couples’ accounts through semi-structured interviews and supported by questionnaires related to commitment and marriage satisfaction. Couples’ commitment was expressed by four major themes: ‘partnership for life’, ‘reciprocity’, ‘resilience’, and ‘forgiveness’. Couples’ experienced an undisturbed, enduring commitment to their relationship in spite of the diagnosis of dementia. The ‘us identity’ of the couple, living-in-relationship, remained intact. Couples considered the challenge of dementia to be a collaborative venture — a journey into the unknown.
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Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.016 | 0.001 |
Machine scores (provisional)
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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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