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Sabat, Steven R. – Georgetown Journal of Languages and Linguistics, 1991
Analysis of a conversation with an Alzheimer's disease sufferer with word-finding problems revealed that social context, speaker characteristics, and awareness of the other speaker's perspective governed such conversational aspects of turn taking and turn giving, which allowed full development of both speakers' personas. (23 references) (CB)
Descriptors: Alzheimers Disease, Language Processing, Neurolinguistics, Oral Language

Hirschman, Karen B.; Joyce, Colette M.; James, Bryan D.; Xie, Sharon X.; Karlawish, Jason H.T. – Gerontologist, 2005
Purpose: This study was designed to examine the factors associated with the preferences of Alzheimer's disease patients to participate in a decision to use an Alzheimer's disease-slowing medication and how involved their caregivers would let them be in this decision. Design and Methods: Interviews were conducted with 48 patients in the…
Descriptors: Patients, Guidance, Decision Making, Caregivers
Carret, N.L.; Auriacombe, S.; Letenneur, L.; Bergua, V.; Dartigues, J.F.; Fabrigoule, C. – Brain and Cognition, 2005
The cognitive reserve hypothesis proposes that a high educational level could delay the clinical expression of Alzheimer's disease (AD) although neuropathologic changes develop in the brain. Therefore, some studies have reported that when the clinical signs of the disease emerge, high-educated patients may decline more rapidly than low-educated…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Patients, Cognitive Processes, Alzheimers Disease
Levinoff, E.J.; Saumier, D.; Chertkow, H. – Brain and Cognition, 2005
Reaction time (RT) tasks take various forms, and can assess psychomotor speed, (i.e., simple reaction time task), and focused attention (i.e., choice reaction time (CRT) task). If cues are provided before stimulus presentation (i.e., cued choice reaction time (CCRT) task), then a cueing effect can also be assessed. A limited number of studies have…
Descriptors: Patients, Identification, Cues, Alzheimers Disease
Whitlatch, Carol J.; Judge, Katherine; Zarit, Steven H.; Femia, Elia – Gerontologist, 2006
Purpose: The Early Diagnosis Dyadic Intervention (EDDI) program provides a structured, time-limited protocol of one-on-one and dyadic counseling for family caregivers and care receivers who are in the early stages of dementia. The goals and procedures of EDDI are based on previous research suggesting that dyads would benefit from an intervention…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Intervention, Identification, Caregivers
Whitlatch, Carol – Journal of Social Work Education, 2008
It is estimated that 13 million to 15 million adults in the United States have chronic conditions that impair cognitive function, such as Alzheimer's disease, stroke, Parkinson's disease, and traumatic brain injury. The growing number of people with chronic conditions that include cognitive impairment and the family members who assist them face…
Descriptors: Identification, Intervention, Chronic Illness, Interpersonal Relationship
Baker, Julie; Ryalls, Jack; Brice, Alejandro; Whiteside, Janet – Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics, 2007
In the present study, voice onset time (VOT) measurements were compared between a group of individuals with moderate Alzheimer's disease (AD) and a group of healthy age- and gender-matched peers. Participants read a list of consonant-vowel-consonant (CVC) words, which included the six stop consonants. The VOT measurements were made from…
Descriptors: Phonemes, Alzheimers Disease, Computational Linguistics, Experimental Groups
Morgan, Debra; Funk, Melanie; Crossley, Margaret; Basran, Jenny; Kirk, Andrew; Bello-Haas, Vanina Dal – Canadian Journal on Aging, 2007
Early differential diagnosis of dementia is becoming increasingly important as new pharmacologic therapies are developed, as these treatments are not equally effective for all types of dementia. Early detection and differential diagnosis also facilitates informed family decision making and timely access to appropriate services. Information about…
Descriptors: Identification, Classification, Alzheimers Disease, Clinical Diagnosis
Frazier, Billie H.; Kirkland, Glenn I. – 1990
This document contains two brief bibliographies of peer-reviewed literature, with abstracts, on dementia and Alzheimer's disease in the elderly, one written for the educator and the other for the consumer. They are two of 12 bibliographies on aging prepared by the National Agricultural Library for its "Pathfinders" series of publications. Topics…
Descriptors: Aging (Individuals), Alzheimers Disease, Mental Disorders, Older Adults

Morano, Carmen Louis – Social Work Research, 2003
This study focused on one question: Do caregiver responses--emotion-focused coping, problem-focused coping, appraisal of burden, and appraisal of satisfaction--mediate or moderate the effects of caregiving stress on psychological well-being? Findings indicate that development of interventions that focus on how caregivers appraise their situation,…
Descriptors: Alzheimers Disease, Caregivers, Coping, Stress Variables

Lyman, Karen A. – Gerontologist, 1989
Argues that social gerontologists have adopted biomedical model of senile dementia, neglecting social factors involved in definition and interpretation of brain disease and in experience of dementing illness. Critiques biomedical model, including definition of pathology, attribution of behavioral changes to disease stages, and legitimation of…
Descriptors: Alzheimers Disease, Gerontology, Mental Disorders, Models

Kosberg, Jordan I.; And Others – Gerontologist, 1990
Studied 127 informal caregivers of Alzheimer's disease patients to determine correlates of 5 components of burden as measured by Cost of Care Index. Significant relationships between predictor variables and burden components suggest that global scores and measures of burden do not identify specific problem areas relative to various components of…
Descriptors: Alzheimers Disease, Family Caregivers, Stress Variables, Testing Problems

Baum, Carolyn Manville; And Others – Occupational Therapy Journal of Research, 1988
A study of 133 control subjects and 141 with senile dementia of the Alzheimer type (SDAT) was designed to determine if language, motor planning, and memory were discrete components of performance. It found that patterns were highly individualized, which suggests that apraxia contributes significantly to dysfunction in some people with SDAT. (JOW)
Descriptors: Adults, Alzheimers Disease, Language Handicaps, Memory

Farran, Carol J.; And Others – Gerontologist, 1991
Used an existential theoretical framework to guide the data interpretation in a qualitative study of 94 family caregivers of dementia patients. Results suggest that an existential framework provides an alternative paradigm for understanding the caregiving experience. (ABL)
Descriptors: Alzheimers Disease, Existentialism, Family Caregivers, Mental Disorders
Saumier, Daniel; Chertkow, Howard; Arguin, Martin; Whatmough, Cristine – Brain and Cognition, 2005
Individuals with Alzheimer's disease (AD) often have problems in recognizing common objects. This visual agnosia may stem from difficulties in establishing appropriate visual boundaries between visually similar objects. In support of this hypothesis, Saumier, Arguin, Chertkow, and Renfrew (2001) showed that AD subjects have difficulties in…
Descriptors: Alzheimers Disease, Spatial Ability, Visual Discrimination, Perceptual Impairments