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Zannino, Gian Daniele; Perri, Roberta; Salamone, Giovanna; Di Lorenzo, Concetta; Caltagirone, Carlo; Carlesimo, Giovanni A. – Neuropsychologia, 2010
There is now a large body of evidence suggesting that color and photographic detail exert an effect on recognition of visually presented familiar objects. However, an unresolved issue is whether these factors act at the visual, the semantic or lexical level of the recognition process. In the present study, we investigated this issue by having…
Descriptors: Semantics, Alzheimers Disease, Patients, Language Processing
Savundranayagam, Marie Y.; Brintnall-Peterson, Mary – Journal of Family Social Work, 2010
This study investigated the extent to which a psychoeducational intervention supports family-centered care by influencing health risk and self-care behaviors of caregivers of individuals with Alzheimer's disease (N = 325). Moreover, this study investigated the extent to which changes in self-efficacy explained changes in health risk and self-care…
Descriptors: Stress Management, Intervention, Self Efficacy, Alzheimers Disease
O'Connor, Melissa L.; McFadden, Susan H. – Educational Gerontology, 2012
According to Terror Management Theory as applied to ageism, older adults may be associated with mortality, thereby generating death-thought accessibility, stereotypes, and mixed emotions among younger adults. However, it is unclear how older adults' health conditions, such as dementia, affect ageist attitudes and mortality salience. In the current…
Descriptors: Alzheimers Disease, Empathy, Young Adults, Health Conditions
Cherry, Katie E.; Walvoord, Ashley A. G.; Hawley, Karri S. – Journal of Genetic Psychology, 2010
The authors trained 4 older adults with probable Alzheimer's disease to recall a name-face-occupation association using the spaced retrieval technique. Six training sessions were administered over a 2-week period. On each trial, participants selected a target photograph and stated the target name and occupation at increasingly longer retention…
Descriptors: Photography, Intervals, Alzheimers Disease, Quality of Life
Menard, Marie-Claude; Belleville, Sylvie – Brain and Cognition, 2009
Musical memory was tested in Alzheimer patients and in healthy older adults using long-term and short-term memory tasks. Long-term memory (LTM) was tested with a recognition procedure using unfamiliar melodies. Short-term memory (STM) was evaluated with same/different judgment tasks on short series of notes. Musical memory was compared to verbal…
Descriptors: Alzheimers Disease, Patients, Control Groups, Older Adults
Kaye, Jeffrey; Michael, Yvonne; Calvert, James; Leahy, Marjorie; Crawford, Debbie; Kramer, Patricia – Journal of Rural Health, 2009
Context: The 2000 US Census identified 50,454 Americans over the age of 100. Increased longevity is only of benefit if accompanied by maintenance of independence and quality of life. Little is known about the prevalence of dementia and other disabling conditions among rural centenarians although this information is important to clinicians caring…
Descriptors: Rural Population, Incidence, Alzheimers Disease, Dementia
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
Iacono, Teresa; Torr, Jennifer; Wong, Hui Yi – Research in Developmental Disabilities: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2010
Studies into the effects of ageing on language in adults with Down syndrome (DS) have tended to rely on measures that lack sensitivity to change because they fail to explore across linguistic domains or rely on proxy reports. The study aim was to use measures of receptive and expressive language from studies of younger individuals with DS in…
Descriptors: Mental Age, Linguistics, Alzheimers Disease, Down Syndrome
Hornberger, M.; Bell, B.; Graham, K. S.; Rogers, T. T. – Neuropsychologia, 2009
We employed a triadic comparison task in patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD) and healthy controls to contrast (a) multidimensional scaling (MDS) and accuracy-based assessments of semantic memory, and (b) degraded-store versus degraded-access accounts of semantic impairment in Alzheimer's disease (AD). Similar to other studies using triadic…
Descriptors: Control Groups, Animals, Semantics, Alzheimers Disease
Hudon, Carol; Belleville, Sylvie; Gauthier, Serge – Brain and Cognition, 2009
This study used the Remember/Know (R/K) procedure combined with signal detection analyses to assess recognition memory in 20 elders with amnestic mild cognitive impairment (aMCI), 10 patients with probable Alzheimer's disease (AD) as well as matched healthy older adults. Signal detection analyses first indicated that aMCI and control participants…
Descriptors: Responses, Alzheimers Disease, Patients, Recognition (Psychology)
Cuetos, Fernando; Herrera, Elena; Ellis, Andrew W. – Neuropsychologia, 2010
Studies of word production in patients with Alzheimer's disease have identified the age of acquisition of words as an important predictor of retention or loss, with early acquired words remaining accessible for longer than later acquired words. If, as proposed by current theories, effects of age of acquisition reflect the involvement of semantic…
Descriptors: Semantics, Alzheimers Disease, Patients, Word Recognition
Amanzio, Martina; Geminiani, Giuliano; Leotta, Daniela; Cappa, Stefano – Brain and Language, 2008
The comprehension of non-literal language was investigated in 20 probable Alzheimer's disease (pAD) patients by comparing their performance to that of 20 matched control subjects. pAD patients were unimpaired in the comprehension of conventional metaphors and idioms. However, their performance was significantly lower in the case of…
Descriptors: Comprehension, Alzheimers Disease, Figurative Language, Patients
Capitani, Erminio; Rosci, Chiara; Saetti, Maria Cristina; Laiacona, Marcella – Neuropsychologia, 2009
In this study we contrasted the Category fluency and Letter fluency performance of 198 normal subjects, 57 Alzheimer's patients and 57 patients affected by traumatic brain injury (TBI). The aim was to check whether, besides the prevalence of Category fluency deficit often reported among Alzheimer's patients, the TBI group presented the opposite…
Descriptors: Neurological Impairments, Alzheimers Disease, Injuries, Patients
Vitaliano, Peter P.; Zhang, Jianping; Young, Heather M.; Caswell, Lisa W.; Scanlan, James M.; Echeverria, Diana – Gerontologist, 2009
Purpose: Very few studies have examined cognitive decline in caregivers versus noncaregivers, and only 1 study has examined mediators of such decline. We evaluated the relationship between caregiver status and decline on the digit symbol test (DST; a measure of processing speed, attention, cognitive-motor translation, and visual scanning) and…
Descriptors: Spouses, Independent Living, Alzheimers Disease, Caregivers
Dassel, Kara Bottiggi; Schmitt, Frederick A. – Gerontologist, 2008
Purpose: The initial diagnosis and treatment of cognitive disorders such as mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer's disease is highly dependent on caregiver reports of patient performance of activities of daily living (ADLs). However, these reports may not always be reliable. We investigated the cognitive skills of caregivers, specifically their…
Descriptors: Physicians, Alzheimers Disease, Caregivers, Patients