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This submission belongs to the session S1. The Social Nature of Health and Well-Being of the event The 1st International Online Conference on Societies
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19 Jan, 2026
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Megan Kemper Strickfaden, Charlene Knudsen, Orsolya Welch, Joyce Thomas, Normalcy, Choice, Personhood: Characterizing Multidimensional Wellbeing in Two Congregate Memory Care Living Environments, in Proceedings of The 1st International Online Conference on Societies, 21 January–23 January 2026, MDPI: Basel, Switzerland
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Normalcy, Choice, Personhood: Characterizing Multidimensional Wellbeing in Two Congregate Memory Care Living Environments
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Megan Kemper Strickfaden 1
Charlene Knudsen 2
Orsolya Welch 3
Joyce Thomas 4
1. Faculty of Agricultural, Life and Environmental Sciences - Human Ecology Dept, University of Alberta, 17 University Campus NW, Edmonton, Alberta, AB T6G 2G6 Canada
2. Department of Human Ecology, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB T6G 2N1, Canada
3. Faculty of Agricultural, Life and Environmental Sci - Human Ecology Dept, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada T6G 1C9
4. Industrial Design, School of Industrial + Graphic Design, College of Architecture, Design and Construction, Auburn University, 207 Wallace Hall, Auburn, AL 63849, United States of America
Abstract
Keywords
content analysis
dementia care by design
ethnographic studies
interviews
longitudinal studies
observation
photos
quality-of-life
sociocultural environments
Stroud/ADI framework
video