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ii In light of increasing system demands, system regulations, and constrained resources, those living and working with dementia in the long-term care sector are vulnerable to oppressive care practices. This is true so long as our understanding of how social power affects the ways in which dementia care knowledge is created, shared, and enacted remains limited. Based on prolonged field observations and on informal and formal interviews with care recipients, family members, and staff, the aim of this critical qualitative research was to examine the culture of dementia care knowledge in two sites: a specialized dementia care unit in a long-term care home, and an affiliated adult day program. Three key insights arise from this study. The first is that normalizing inclusiveness in generating dementia knowledge is akin to democratizing hierarchical relationships in long-term dementia care work environments; the more that knowledge is co-constructed under ethical conditions of discourse, the more point-of-care staff can |
