EFFECTS OF MEMORY AIDS ON THE DYADIC CONVERSATIONS OF INDIVIDUALS WITH DEMENTIA
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The effects of a prosthetic memory aid on the conversational content and social skills of dyads with dementia were evaluated. Six individuals with moderate to severe dementia served as either subject or partner in dyads during 5‐min conversational probes conducted three times per week in daycare and nursing‐home settings. During phases when a memory aid, consisting of personally relevant picture and sentence stimuli, was available, most subjects used their own aid to improve the quality of conversations by increasing the frequency of on‐topic statements, diminishing nonproductive utterances, lengthening their conversational turn, and/or increasing the frequency of turns taken. Most partners demonstrated awareness of social discourse conventions by appropriately relinquishing conversational dominance, decreasing both content and nonproductive utterances, and increasing acknowledging or affirmative comments when subjects used memory aids. Naive judges' ratings of aided and unaided conversational samples on seven conversational dimensions reflected differences in perceptions of significant improvement as a function of the conversational discourse style of each dyad.
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- Authors
- Bourgeois, M. S.
- Affiliations
- University of Pittsburgh (US)
- Corresponding author
- Bourgeois, Michelle S.
- Venue
- Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 1993-03
- Volume
- 26
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 77-87
- ISSN
- 0021-8855 (ISSN-L)
- 1938-3703
- PMC
- PMC1297721
- OpenAlex
- W2083277177
- Cited by
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- References
- 21
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- FWCI
- 1.24
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Locations
- Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis (publishedVersion)
- Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (publishedVersion)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Health Professions › Occupational Therapy › Assistive Technology in Communication and Mobility
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Psychiatry and Mental health › Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Developmental and Educational Psychology › Behavioral and Psychological Studies
- Keywords
- memory aids, dementia, dyadic conversation, conversation skills, social skills, conversational turn-taking, conversational dominance, nursing home residents
- MeSH terms
- Aged, Aged, 80 and over, Alzheimer Disease, Attention, Behavior Therapy, Female, Humans, Interpersonal Relations, Male, Mental Status Schedule, Mental Recall, Social Behavior, Verbal Behavior
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