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Download full textCuetos, Fernando; Samartino, Tamara; Ellis, Andrew W. – Psicologica: International Journal of Methodology and Experimental Psychology, 2012
Age of acquisition is possibly the single most potent variable affecting lexical access. It is also a variable that determines the retention or loss of words in patients who have suffered brain injury, and in patients with Alzheimer's disease. But the norms of age of acquisition currently available have largely been obtained from university…
Descriptors: Alzheimers Disease, Diseases, Young Adults, Older Adults
Direct linkEdvardsson, David; Innes, Anthea – Gerontologist, 2010
Purpose of the study: To present a critical comparative review of published tools measuring the person-centeredness of care for older people and people with dementia. Design and Methods: Included tools were identified by searches of PubMed, Cinahl, the Bradford Dementia Group database, and authors' files. The terms "Person-centered,"…
Descriptors: Alzheimers Disease, Caregivers, Psychometrics, Dementia
Trahan, Maranda A.; Kahng, SungWoo; Fisher, Alyssa B.; Hausman, Nicole L. – Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 2011
It is estimated that 1 in 10 adults aged 65 years and older have been diagnosed with dementia, which is associated with numerous behavioral excesses and deficits. Despite the publication of a special section of the "Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis" ("JABA") on behavioral gerontology (Iwata, 1986), there continues to be a paucity of…
Descriptors: Emotional Disturbances, Dementia, Gerontology, Older Adults
Simmons, Daniela – Educational Gerontology, 2011
Nonhome-based long-term care sustainable living arrangements for elderly people with Alzheimer's is presented. Characteristics contributing to sustainability are discussed. The ultimate goal in sustainable design for older adult communities is a people-centered model of care in environments that improve their quality of life. Without sustainable…
Descriptors: Dementia, Quality of Life, Older Adults, Sustainable Development
Jacobs, Heidi I. L.; Van Boxtel, Martin P. J.; Uylings, Harry B. M.; Gronenschild, Ed H. B. M.; Verhey, Frans R.; Jolles, Jelle – Brain and Cognition, 2011
Cortical grey matter atrophy patterns have been reported in healthy ageing and Alzheimer disease (AD), but less consistently in the parietal regions of the brain. We investigated cortical grey matter volume patterns in parietal areas. The grey matter of the somatosensory cortex, superior and inferior parietal lobule was measured in 75 older adults…
Descriptors: Group Membership, Alzheimers Disease, Brain Hemisphere Functions, Cognitive Processes
Plancher, G.; Tirard, A.; Gyselinck, V.; Nicolas, S.; Piolino, P. – Neuropsychologia, 2012
Most neuropsychological assessments of episodic memory bear little similarity to the events that patients actually experience as memories in daily life. The first aim of this study was to use a virtual environment to characterize episodic memory profiles in an ecological fashion, which includes memory for central and perceptual details,…
Descriptors: Computer Simulation, Alzheimers Disease, Diseases, Identification
Li, Ruijie; Liu, Karen P. Y. – International Journal of Rehabilitation Research, 2012
The aim of this article was to review the evidence of errorless learning on learning outcomes in patients with early-stage Alzheimer's disease. A computer-aided literature search from 1999 to 2011 was carried out using MEDLINE, Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature (CINAHL), PsycINFO and PsycArticles. Keywords included…
Descriptors: Outcome Measures, Alzheimers Disease, Learning Strategies, Patients
Bouma, Anke; Gootjes, Liselotte – Brain and Cognition, 2011
This article presents an overview of our studies in elderly and Alzheimer patients employing Kimura's dichotic digits paradigm as a measure for left hemispheric predominance for processing language stimuli. In addition to structural brain mechanisms, we demonstrated that attention modulates the direction and degree of ear asymmetry in dichotic…
Descriptors: Dementia, Older Adults, Patients, Human Body
Dewar, Michaela; Pesallaccia, Martina; Cowan, Nelson; Provinciali, Leandro; Della Sala, Sergio – Brain and Cognition, 2012
Impairment on standard tests of delayed recall is often already maximal in the aMCI stage of Alzheimer's Disease. Neuropathological work shows that the neural substrates of memory function continue to deteriorate throughout the progression of the disease, hinting that further changes in memory performance could be tracked by a more sensitive test…
Descriptors: Structural Elements (Construction), Models, Alzheimers Disease, Word Lists
Gandini, Delphine; Lemaire, Patrick; Michel, Bernard Francois – Brain and Cognition, 2009
Forty young adults, 40 healthy older adults, and 39 probable AD patients were asked to estimate small (e.g., 25) and large (e.g., 60) collections of dots in a choice condition and in two no-choice conditions. Participants could choose between benchmark and anchoring strategies on each collection of dots in the choice condition and were required to…
Descriptors: Alzheimers Disease, Dementia, Young Adults, Patients
Parker, Beth A.; Thompson, Paul D.; Jordan, Kathryn C.; Grimaldi, Adam S.; Assaf, Michal; Jagannathan, Kanchana; Pearlson, Godfrey D. – Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport, 2011
The hippocampus is the primary site of memory and learning in the brain. Both normal aging and various disease pathologies (e.g., alcoholism, schizophrenia, and major depressive disorder) are associated with lower hippocampal volumes in humans and hippocampal atrophy predicts progression of Alzheimers disease. In animals, there is convincing…
Descriptors: Evidence, Exercise, Schizophrenia, Alzheimers Disease
Ducharme, Francine C.; Levesque, Louise L.; Lachance, Lise M.; Kergoat, Marie-Jeanne; Legault, Alain J.; Beaudet, Line M.; Zarit, Steven H. – Gerontologist, 2011
Purpose: The purpose of this experimental study was to test the efficacy of a psychoeducational individual program conceived to facilitate transition to the caregiver role following diagnosis of Alzheimer disease in a relative. Design and Methods: Caregivers were recruited in memory clinics and randomized to an experimental group (n = 62) or a…
Descriptors: Experimental Groups, Control Groups, Intervention, Alzheimers Disease
Sanders, Sara; Swails, Peggy – Social Work, 2011
Research shows that few social workers are interested in working with cognitively impaired older adults, such as those with Alzheimer's disease or a related dementia. As the number of individuals with dementia grows, the demand for social workers to provide services to patients with dementia will increase. Although much attention has been given to…
Descriptors: Hospices (Terminal Care), Alzheimers Disease, Focus Groups, Older Adults
Lifshitz, Hefziba; Klein, Pnina S. – Education and Training in Autism and Developmental Disabilities, 2011
This study presents a new way of mediation between staff and elderly persons with intellectual disability (ID) and Alzheimer type dementia (AD), i.e., the MISC (Mediational Intervention for Sensitizing Caregivers (Klein, 1988, 2003) model. The MISC was adopted for interactions between staff and adults with ID and AD based on observations of…
Descriptors: Mental Retardation, Alzheimers Disease, Caregivers, Older Adults
Beer, Laura E.; Hutchinson, Susan R.; Skala-Cordes, Kristine K. – Gerontology & Geriatrics Education, 2012
The increase of dementia in older adults is changing how medical care is delivered. Recognizing symptoms of pain, managing behaviors, and providing quality of life for people who have advanced dementia requires a new skill set for caregivers. Researchers in this study targeted nurse aide students to test an educational module's effect on students'…
Descriptors: Alzheimers Disease, Cognitive Ability, Student Attitudes, Quality of Life
