Behind the Shower Curtain: Seven Poems on Aging and Body Cleaning


KARACA ŞALGAMCIOĞLU B., Er Ö.

Cultural Studies - Critical Methodologies, vol.18, no.4, pp.272-282, 2018 (Scopus) identifier identifier

  • Publication Type: Article / Article
  • Volume: 18 Issue: 4
  • Publication Date: 2018
  • Doi Number: 10.1177/1532708617727757
  • Journal Name: Cultural Studies - Critical Methodologies
  • Journal Indexes: Scopus
  • Page Numbers: pp.272-282
  • Keywords: aging, body-cleaning, bathroom, poetic representation, design
  • Istanbul Medipol University Affiliated: No

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.