What is "positive situation work"?
Lone Grøn, Oliver Bonnevie and Rasmus Dyring have visited the University of Humanistic Studies in Utrecht in order to share their ideas about world-open dementia care they are developing in collaboration with partners in the dementia care sector in Horsens Kommune, Denmark.
As we define it, "positive situation work" is a critical supplement to the "positive person work" of person-centered care. By working directly and generatively with "situations", the ambition behind situation work is to craft situations which facilitate the spontaneity of everyday life. The ambition is thus to craft situations in which it is the spontaneous engagement of people with dementia, that drives the activities, and in the process to let loose the creative resources of caregivers and professionals.