Sense of Recognition for Healthcare Professionals Working With Institutionalized Older Adults with Advanced Neuro-Evolutionary Disease
Résumé
Every professional working with older adults with neuro-evolutionary diseases wonder at some point if the people they care for can recognize them, despite their significant cognitive impairment. The ability to be physically recognized as a professional is obvious to many people who are caregivers to older people. However, this question remains unaddressed in the books. The purpose of this study is to highlight the feeling of recognition experienced by healthcare professionals for people with significant cognitive impairment. Often, a negative image is attributed to people with neuro-evolutionary disease, reducing them to people unable to remember or to create new relationships. However, in this study, the healthcare professionals were able to put forward a completely different vision of these people by showing that a bond continues to be created between them and their residents. How do healthcare professionals live their daily lives in contact with these people who are considered prosopagnosic? What concepts are involved in this feeling of recognition? From our research, we will defend the maintenance of the capacity for recognition for people with a neuro-evolutionary disease by using the concept of implicit affective memory as a support for a non-conscious recognition.