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The Psychosocial Impacts of Multimedia Biographies on Persons with Cognitive Impairments
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Damianakis, Thecla; Crete-Nishihata, Masashi; Smith, Karen L.; Baecker, Ronald M.; Marziali, Elsa – Gerontologist, 2010
Purpose: The purpose of this feasibility pilot project was to observe Alzheimer's disease (AD) and mild cognitive impairment (MCI) patients' responses to personalized multimedia biographies (MBs). We developed a procedure for using digital video technology to construct DVD-based MBs of persons with AD or MCI, documented their responses to…
Descriptors: Pilot Projects, Alzheimers Disease, Caregivers, Patients
Using Life Histories to Individualize Nursing Home Staff Attitudes toward Residents.
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Pietrukowicz, Mary E.; Johnson, Mitzi M. S. – Gerontologist, 1991
Nurse's aides (n=43) at two institutions answered questions about their experience and knowledge of aging and rated nursing home residents on a semantic differential (attitude) scale. Results indicated including a brief life history in a routine medical chart caused aides to perceive residents in a more positive manner. (Author/ABL)
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Biographies, Institutionalized Persons, Nurses Aides
Depressed Elderly Women in Switzerland: An Example of Testing and of Generating Theories.
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Lalive d'Epinay, Christian – Gerontologist, 1985
Results of a Swiss study revealed high proportion of farm women were depressed. Their depression is accounted for through the development of a theory of culture shock which is based upon the conflict between traditional values and everyday realities. The importance of using life histories to supplement survey data in theory development is…
Descriptors: Biographies, Culture Conflict, Depression (Psychology), Females
What's the Latest? II. Cultural Age Deadlines for Educational and Work Transitions.
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Settersten, Richard A., Jr.; Hagestad, Gunhild O. – Gerontologist, 1996
Building on interviews with 319 adults, examines cultural age "deadlines" for a series of general transitions related to education and work. Respondents indicated a rough, "normal biography" of general transitions which had flexible guidelines for how those trajectories might unfold. Relates these findings to complementary…
Descriptors: Aging (Individuals), Biographies, Career Change, Educational Change