Art of medicine: Witnessing care and cleaning health care spaces

Author ORCID Identifier

Gilbert https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5713-0664

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

9-2022

Publication Title

AMA Journal of Ethics

Volume

24

Issue

9

Abstract

Two portraits of Barry, a housekeeping utility worker at the Veterans Memorial Hospital Memory Clinic in Halifax, Nova Scotia, are part of 80- piece arts-based research collection, led by this article’s author, portrait artist Mark Gilbert. The 2-year study, Giving, Receiving, Observing & Witnessing Care (GROWing Care), explored experiences of patients living with dementia and their caregivers.

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