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Direct linkLove, Tamara; Wiese, Lisa Ann Kirk; Duncan, Vanessa; Bertrand, Herlie – Educational Gerontology, 2023
In the past two decades, deaths from stroke, heart disease and HIV decreased, whereas reported deaths from age-related Alzheimer's disease (AD) have increased. Future nurses will be caring for the rapidly escalating number of older adults facing increased AD risk, yet nursing students' knowledge has been shown to be limited regarding the…
Descriptors: Independent Study, Learning Strategies, Nursing Students, Knowledge Level
Andrés Alexis Ramírez-Coronel; Jazmín Cevasco; Franco Londra; Gastón Saux – European Journal of Psychology of Education, 2024
Misconceptions or inaccurate ideas about Alzheimer's disease (AD) can be found in college students from health-related careers. Refutation texts explicitly introduce inaccurate information, refute it, and introduce alternative, more accurate information. This study examined the role of refutation texts in revising misconceptions about AD in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Nursing Students, Nursing Education
García-Caballero, Melissa; Moya-García, Aurelio; Torres-Vargas, José Antonio; García-Ponce, Ángel Luis; Rodríguez-Quesada, Ana – Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Education, 2022
We have implemented at the University of Málaga (Spain) a new course-based undergraduate research experience (CURE) to involve undergraduate students of Science in a real-world scientific problem. Within the topic "Let's find acetylcholinesterase inhibitors as new drug candidates for the treatment of Alzheimer's", students have been…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, College Science, Student Research
Saccasan, Nicola; Scerri, Charles – International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 2020
Background: Due to dementia-related communication difficulties, speech--language pathologists (SLPs) play a significant role in supporting individuals with dementia and their caregivers. Nevertheless, SLP practitioners may not have received adequate dementia training during their undergraduate programme and skills updating post-qualification.…
Descriptors: Dementia, Communication Disorders, Student Attitudes, Knowledge Level
Walker, Allison S. – Community Literacy Journal, 2016
This is a snapshot of a service learning course founded on narrative medicine, a clinical practice designed to replace impersonal care with empathic listening. By utilizing poetry therapy techniques among nursing home populations, a program called "HPU LifeLines" promotes a community literacy of illness and provides psychological and…
Descriptors: Service Learning, Empathy, Listening, Poetry
Kada, Sundaran – Educational Gerontology, 2015
With an aging general population and a concurrent increase in the prevalence of dementia, health and social care professional students are increasingly exposed to this group of patients during their clinical placements and after graduation. A sound dementia-related knowledge base among health and social care students is important in providing…
Descriptors: Aging (Individuals), Alzheimers Disease, Undergraduate Students, Allied Health Occupations
