Browsing Doctoral Theses by Thesis Supervisor "Kayes, Nicola"
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"The Difference Between Being Looked at and Being Seen": an In-depth Consideration of Experiencing the Whole Person Theraputic Approach for Chronic Illness
(Auckland University of Technology, 2018)The Whole Person Therapeutic Approach (WPTA) is a non-dualistic, person-centred clinical approach to healthcare. Clinicians who operate from this approach hold a unified ontological assumption that subjective and intrinsically ... -
Getting Old and Forgetting Things: Design Anthropology and the Medicalisation of Ageing
(Auckland University of Technology, 2020)Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI) is a relatively new diagnosis that describes the grey area between ‘normal’ age-related decline and dementia. Following increased interest in the developmental stages of Alzheimer’s Disease ... -
Reconceptualising engagement: a relational practice with people experiencing communication disability after stroke
(Auckland University of Technology, 2015)‘Engagement’ is a term increasingly used in healthcare and has commonly been conceptualised as a patient behaviour and responsibility. However, an emerging body of research indicates that the practitioner can influence ... -
Walking for wellbeing after stroke: Building a treatment theory to improve real-world walking
(Auckland University of Technology, 2018)This thesis explored ways to enable people with stroke to walk more in the real-world. The starting point for this work was the lack of sustained change in real-world walking following clinic-based interventions after ...