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Exploring the Role of Everyday Sounds to Support People Living with Dementia
Published in Paul A. Rodgers, Design for People Living with Dementia, 2022
Sarah E. Campbell, David Frohlich, Norman A. Alm
Reminiscence therapy is an established intervention used with people with dementia (Cotelli et al., 2012, Dempsey et al., 2014; Wang, 2007), where memories that are personally significant are stimulated to be enjoyed and shared with others (Pinquart and Forstmeier, 2012). Stimuli are used to evoke memories with people with dementia, in order to facilitate reminiscing. Reminiscing with others has shown to be particularly beneficial (Blake, 2013), stimulating conversations between people with dementia, carers, and family members. These conversations create connections that are beneficial not just for the person with dementia (Akanuma et al., 2011) but also for the other people taking part in the conversation (Chiang et al., 2009; Istvandity, 2017). However, currently, reminiscence therapy is largely conducted either with a group of people with dementia, or with a person with dementia and their paid carer, whilst in a residential care home (Beard, 2012; Livingston et al., 2005). The potential of facilitating reminiscence activities within the home between people with dementia and their unpaid carers has neither been fully explored nor exploited.
Using Digital Photography to Support the Communication of People with Aphasia, Dementia or Cognitive-Communication Deficits
Published in Christopher M. Hayre, Dave J. Muller, Marcia J. Scherer, Everyday Technologies in Healthcare, 2019
Reminiscence therapy is a type of interaction that promotes the discussion of past experiences, usually with the aid of tangible props such as photographs, newspaper clippings and musical recordings (Cotelli, Manenti, & Zanetti, 2012; Woods, O’Philbin, Farrell, Spector, & Orrell, 2018). Clinicians implementing reminiscence therapy identify important events and milestones in a person’s life – such as academic achievements, military service, marriage ceremonies and holiday celebrations – and use them to scaffold conversational exchanges. Incorporating multisensory input in the form of tangible props supports recall. For example, props to support a conversation about the winter holidays might include traditional holiday decorations, music, winter outerwear and foods that provide sounds, smells, tastes, images and touch sensations that maximize the potential for recall of relevant past experiences. The addition of photographs as a tangible prop can play a particularly important role in promoting recall and stimulating language production, especially when the images are personally relevant ones depicting the individual him/herself or immediate family members (Andrews, 1997). Also important is the selection of photographs depicting people engaged in activities rather than portraits, depictions of scenes or pictures of isolated objects (Alm, Ellis, Astell, Dye, Gowans, & Campbell, 2004). However, because misinterpretations sometimes occur when people with dementia encounter visually complex photographs, balancing simplicity and transparency with contextual richness may be critical when selecting photographs for reminiscence purposes.
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Published in Emmanuel Tsekleves, John Keady, Design for People Living with Dementia, 2021
Emmanuel Tsekleves, John Keady
Typically, under the umbrella term of reminiscence therapy, there is a wide variety of therapeutic activities which may include the discussion of past activities, personally significant people, events and experiences. This is usually done with the aid of tangible prompts such as photographs, household and other familiar items from the past, music and archive sound recordings (Lazar et al., 2014). The introduction of digital technologies in reminiscence work has enabled the digitisation of such prompts, especially photographs, music and videos. Reminiscence therapy can focus on a single individual, becoming more personalised or it can focus on a group becoming a more social and shared activity in a group setting.
Institutional Environment of Old Age Homes and Its Relation to Adjustment of Older Adults: Evidence from Pakistan
Published in Journal of Aging and Environment, 2022
Jawad Tariq, Mohammad Vaqas Ali, Rubeena Zakar, Amal Sajjad, Hamad Tariq
The study can help the administrators and staff members in providing transitional care to residents by better understanding the factors that predict adjustment of residents and helping the residents to make a healthy transition. Keeping in view the findings and discussion, it can be proposed that intervention such as support from staff and other residents can help older adults to adjust properly in old age homes. Therapeutic techniques such as Reminiscence therapy can help to increase the interaction of staff members with the residents and give them a better understanding of the residents. Reminiscence therapy has proven effective in helping older adults to reduce adjustment problems by developing self-appreciation, recognizing their problem solving abilities, coping with bitter memories, and relieving boredom by developing social contacts. A support group comprising of well-adjusted residents can be formulated that can introduce the new residents to other residents, share their relocation and adjustment stories, and help them to familiarize with the setting and daily routine. Such collective activities can provide socialization and stimulation to the new resident and can serve to slow the physical and cognitive decline.
Visiting the Allotment Garden—A Complete Experience
Published in Journal of Housing For the Elderly, 2018
Nina E. Martens, Helena Nordh, Marianne Thorsen Gonzalez
The interviewees expressed that memories came to their mind in one way or another when visiting the AG and that this activated pleasant childhood memories. From this perspective, it is interesting that reminiscence interventions are in general the interventions that seem to most promote well-being for healthy elderly in later life (Sutipan, Intarakamhang, & Macaskill, 2017) and that there are significant associations between reminiscence experiences and the mental health of older adults (Cappeliez et al., 2005). Interestingly, Lin et al. (2003) also concluded in their review that reminiscence therapy offers multiple benefits. The authors underlined that reminiscence therapy for the elderly might maintain or improve good mood, as well as cognitive functioning, life satisfaction, and self-esteem, and that these strategies might be useful both for healthy people and clinical populations.
Mobile app-based interventions to improve the well-being of people with dementia: a systematic literature review
Published in Assistive Technology, 2023
Zehang Cheng, Minmin Zhou, Kamal Sabran
If long-term memory is still intact in patients with dementia, recalling and discussing past experiences can improve quality of life by promoting patients’ mental health (Cotelli et al., 2012; Liu et al., 2021). Mobile apps in four studies incorporated reminiscence therapy. All four studies concluded that reminiscence therapy led to various health outcomes for patients, including cognitive improvement in cognitive ability, improved memory loss, increased willingness to interact socially, and a good mood.