ABSTRACT
Much remains to be learned from and about people with dementia and their interlocutors. For example, there is to date little work that looks at how people with dementia, for example, in institutional settings, interact with each other on a day-to-day basis. In many residential care facilities, bedrooms are shared, and there is little room (literally and conceptually) for privacy. Therefore, coping not only with one’s own but with others’ varying interactional skills and impairments is a matter of social survival in the nursing home. An investigation of mechanisms and strategies, ranging potentially from withdrawal to aggression, should prove interesting.
