Towards a critical understanding of creativity and dementia: new directions for practice change
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Background and aims: The past decade has seen important advances in research on creativity, which \nhave provided a more inclusive view of the everyday and ordinary creativity of ‘normal’ citizens, \nincluding those living with dementia. However, these developments are limited by a lack of engagement \nwith theoretical and empirical scholarship on embodiment, relationality and citizenship. This article \naddresses these limitations by introducing and explicating a relational model of citizenship that offers \na critical rethinking of creativity and the imperative that this be supported in long-term dementia care. \nMethods: The article draws on transcribed video-recorded interactions between elder-clowns and \nresidents living with dementia in one long-term care home in central Canada. These are analysed with \nreference to key theoretical tenets of the relational model of citizenship. \nResults: Embodied selfhood, specifically the primordial and sociocultural dispositions of the body that \nare fundamental sources of self-expression and relationality, are identified as key to the creativity of \npersons living with dementia. Further, it is demonstrated that creativity is not an individual cognitive \ntrait but rather emerges from the complex intersection of enabling environments and the embodied \nintentionality of all involved. \nConclusion: The analysis offered here not only adds a new dimension to the understanding of creativity, \nbut in a more profound sense sets an important ethical standard for cultivating relational environments \nto support creativity in everyday life. \nImplications for practice: The implication of this analysis is that creativity must be supported in the \ncontext of everyday life through organisational practices and sociopolitical institutions, including \nopportunities for practice development and broader structural changes that more fully support the \nrelational, interpersonal and affective dimensions of care.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.107 | 0.077 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.008 | 0.006 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.023 | 0.117 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.039 | 0.048 |
| Open science | 0.010 | 0.032 |
| Research integrity | 0.016 | 0.028 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.012 | 0.002 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".