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For my PhD I undertook in-depth research with older persons living with dementia and who resided in a nursing home. My topic was wandering. I was exploring what wandering was and what meaning it had for the older person who “did it”. I was doing this as no one had previously done any similar research on wandering with, rather than on, persons with dementia. I was driven by the fact that wandering had previously been researched from a behavioural and generally a reductionist perspective.
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Dewing, J. (2011). Bringing Merleau Ponty's Inspirations to the Doing of Research. In: Higgs, J., Titchen, A., Horsfall, D., Bridges, D. (eds) Creative Spaces for Qualitative Researching. Practice, Education, Work and Society, vol 5. SensePublishers. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6091-761-5_7
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