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Effects of individualized memory aids on the conversation of persons with severe dementia
— a pilot study | | Author(s) | A McPherson, F G Furniss, C Sdogati |
| Journal title | Aging & Mental Health, vol 5, no 3, August 2001 |
| Pages | pp 289-294 |
| Source | http://www.tandfonline.com |
| Keywords | Dementia ; Cognitive processes ; Memory and Reminiscence ; Pilot. |
| Annotation | Michelle Bourgeois has shown that use of simple memory aids enhances the quality of conversation of people with moderate Alzheimer-type dementia. The authors replicated Bourgeois' intervention with five people with severe dementia (Mini-Mental State Examination scores 0-4) and diagnoses of Alzheimer-type or vascular dementia, and evaluated the impact of the aids on the proportion of time participants spent on-topic in conversation with carers. For three participants, use of the memory aid did not increase the proportion of time spent on-topic. The other two participants, however, spent approximately twice as much time on-topic when using the aid as when conversing without it. These results extend Bourgeois' work, by showing that memory aids are helpful to some people with severe dementia. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-010927217 A |
| Classmark | EA: DA: DB: 4UC |
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