Behind the Shower Curtain: Seven Poems on Aging and Body Cleaning. (August 2018)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Karaca Şalgamcıoğlu, Berrak; Er, Özlem
• Is Part Of: Cultural studies, critical methodologies. Volume 18:Number 4(2018)
• Page Start: 272
• Page End: 282
• Publication Date: 2018-08
• Subjects: aging -- body-cleaning -- bathroom -- poetic representation -- design; Culture -- Research -- Periodicals; Popular culture -- Research -- Periodicals; 306.05
• DOI: 10.1177/1532708617727757
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1532-7086

Abstract

Bathroom is one of the first places that older adults face with challenge and fear. Difficulty or dependence in body-cleaning affect older adults' daily lives dramatically. Despite the consequences associated with disability in body-cleaning, little is known about older adults' experiences on it. One reason for this lack of knowledge may be that body-cleaning is a private activity and a difficult task to explore. This article will present seven poems that are results of a research study where older women were asked to narrate of their own body-cleaning experience to a tape recorder while they were performing the task.