Arkitektur og teknologi som avgrensar pleietrengjande sin tilgang til WC

Abstract

This article is on Nursing Home residents who have different kinds of urine- and faeces incontinence, who cannot sit steady on ordinary toilet(chairs), - cannot speak, - cannot write, and who cannot walk. They deliver all their waists in incontinence pads. Although the residents cannot speak, it is obvious that they dislike the pads, and try to remove them. If they had been offered the possibility to deliver their urine and faces at fixed hours, most of their waists could have been left on a toilet(chair), but that was impossible because of the lack of nursing staff and the lack of appropriate equipment. The actual resident’s toilet practices are invisible violence, exercised through the everyday practices of social life in the feminine “lower part” of the Norwegian healthcare system.

The study is based on fieldwork in two Norwegian Nursing Homes. The analysis is carried out in the light of Bourdieu’s theories on the symbolic violence of masculine dominance.