ABSTRACT
Timetabled routines, and the ‘task-list system’ as a mode of coordinating the work of the hospital ward and the delivery of bedside care within them, has a long tradition. This chapter focuses on the daily timetables of bedside work within these contemporary wards, governed by rigid, task-based timetables, that organised, shaped, and dominated the delivery of everyday care at the bedside. Restoring and repairing the timetables through increased pace, priorities, rigidity, and patterns of compulsive repetition at the bedside, was a key feature of the work on these wards during almost every shift. Importantly, timetabled care at the bedside typically provided the main opportunity for people living with dementia to make other requests for care and support that reflected their own routine and timetable, some of which could be urgent. Restoring and repairing the timetables was a key feature of the work of these ward teams during almost every shift.
