The Ageing Multicultural Society. Studies of Intersectional Practices in Culturally Sensitive Care

Abstract

This article investigates intersectional practices of culturally sensitive care by correlating discourse and practice. Methodologically, this article follows actors observed in retirement homes who translate discursive fragments of care into situated practices of care. In detailed analyses of practical coordination of action between caregivers and migrants suffering from dementia it will be shown that practices of intersubjectivity in culturally sensitive care are implicit, bodily performative, context sensitive, and in part culturally indifferent.