Racial segregation, Dementia and hair care
Thinking Allowed
BBC
4.4 • 997 Ratings
🗓️ 23 November 2016
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Racial segregation in the United States: Laurie Taylor explores a provocative new study which sheds light on the racism which still endures today. Nicholas Guyatt, lecturer in American History at the University of Cambridge, asks why America's founding fathers failed to include Black and Native American people in their cherished ideals of equality. Kehinde Anderws, Associate Professor in Sociology at Birmingham City University, provides a Black British perspective. Also, hairdressing for people with dementia. A new study by Sarah Campbell, Research Associate at the University of Manchester, discovered the importance of salon chat and human touch to women and men who struggled to recall the past. Producer: Jayne Egerton.
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| 0:00.0 | This is a Thinking Aloud Podcast from the BBC and for more details in our terms of use and much, |
| 0:06.2 | much more about thinking aloud. Go to our website at BBC.co.uk. Hello. Some years ago when my old friend and colleague Stan Cohen was in the later stages of Parkinson's |
| 0:19.4 | disease, I tried to distract him from his nursing home environment by reading passages from some of his favorite books from Updike or Roth or Bello. |
| 0:29.0 | His Parkinson's meant that his face had become incapable of showing any response to my reading but I knew I was making real |
| 0:35.1 | contact when I heard him emit a brief, ever so brief, throaty chuckle. And that was quite enough to tell me that |
| 0:41.2 | he'd surrendered to the fiction, that he was at least for a moment |
| 0:45.3 | back in the familiar world of Mickey Sabbath and Portnoy and Herzog and Rabbit Angstrom. |
| 0:51.5 | Well that sense of re-encoundering the familiar lies at the heart of a new |
| 0:55.8 | ethnographic study of the work of hairdressers in dementia care homes. These hairdressers who were all |
| 1:01.8 | women that often left work to have children when they |
| 1:04.2 | returned found their skills were outdated and so ended up working in care homes and in hospitals. |
| 1:09.6 | They had no formal contract, so no sick leave, no holiday cover. They simply came in, did their job and left. |
| 1:16.6 | And sometimes that job meant cutting the hair at about 30 clients a day, and also meant working |
| 1:21.4 | not in a proper salon, but anywhere in the residential home where space |
| 1:24.7 | could be found for a mirror and a chair. |
| 1:27.8 | So how did hairdressers and their clients manage in these circumstances? |
| 1:32.6 | And what lessons about the provision of dementia care might be derived from their interaction? |
| 1:37.0 | Well, those are questions for the author of assembling the salon, learning from alternative forms of body work in dementia care and she's Sarah |
| 1:45.9 | Campbell and she's the research associate in nursing in midwifery at the University of |
| 1:50.3 | Manchester. Tell me a little bit more because I mean I just said briefly there, a lovely paper, |
| 1:55.8 | I just said they're briefly they really had to create their own salon. |
| 1:58.2 | I mean tell me about some of the difficulties, they had a lug equipment around as well, some of them |
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