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Record W4410468934 · doi:10.1080/15350770.2025.2507307

What <i>“Marcel the Shell with Shoes On”</i> Can Teach Us About Social Connectedness and the Caregiving Experience in Dementia

2025· article· en· W4410468934 on OpenAlex

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Bibliographic record

VenueJournal of Intergenerational Relationships · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicIntergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Alberta
Fundersnot available
KeywordsSocial connectednessDementiaPsychologyGerontologySocial psychologyMedicine

Abstract

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The film Marcel the Shell with Shoes On offers a unique exploration of social connectedness and the caregiving experience in the context of dementia. This exploration occurs through the lens of the film’s protagonist, a tiny shell named Marcel, and his aging grandmother, Nana Connie. As Marcel navigates a world that is both isolating and unexpectedly expansive, his caregiving role for Nana Connie, who experiences memory problems, reflects the emotional and practical complexities of supporting a family member with dementia. The film’s themes align with established concepts of intergenerational relationships and social connectedness, emphasizing the importance of meaningful connection, a sense of belonging, and resilience in the face of change. Through its creative storytelling, the film offers valuable lessons on the sustaining power of relationships, the emotions associated with caregiving, and the ways in which social connectedness shapes our identities and wellbeing.

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Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.002
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesScience and technology studies
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.852
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0020.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0020.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

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.

Opus teacher head0.022
GPT teacher head0.297
Teacher spread0.275 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it