Dr. Yoshizaki-Gibbons Publishes Article in The Hastings Center Report on Rethinking Time and Care in Dementia Units

Dr. Yoshizaki-Gibbons is an assistant professor of biomedical humanities at Hiram College

by Taylor Cook

Hiram, OH (10/06/2025) — Dr. Hailee Yoshizaki-Gibbons, assistant professor of biomedical humanities at Hiram College, recently published an article in The Hastings Center Report, a leading journal on ethics and policy in medicine and the life sciences. The piece, titled "Gifts of Time: Disrupting Dominant Temporalities in the Dementia Unit," appears in the special issue Living With Dementia: Learning from Cultural Narratives of Aging Societies.

Based on ethnographic research conducted in the dementia unit of a nursing home, Yoshizaki-Gibbons' article explores how alternative understandings of time can reshape care practices and challenge conventional perspectives on dementia.

The article is open access and available to read online at: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/hast.5000?af=R

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Hailee

Yoshizaki-Gibbons

• Assistant Professor of Biomedical Humanities; Director of Eclectic Scholars
• Biomedical Humanities
• Canal Winchester, OH

Hiram College Faculty

For more information contact: Taylor Cook, cookta@hiram.edu

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