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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.
Things
Published in Emmanuel Tsekleves, John Keady, Design for People Living with Dementia, 2021
Emmanuel Tsekleves, John Keady
A systematic literature review by Subramaniam and Woods (2010) has revealed a great variety of reminiscence therapy interventions/prompts being used, including individual picture gramophone; biography theatre; therapeutic/restorative biographies; personalised reminiscence video; personalised multimedia biographies; multimedia biography; personal TV photograph album; digital life histories; and interactive life story multimedia. It has shown that reminiscence activities are mainly used to maintain the identity of the person living with dementia, for encouraging communication with other people living with dementia and care staff. An additional advantage of reminiscence therapy is that it can be used with people with varying levels of cognition, including those who have lost ability to verbalize (Lazar et al., 2014).
Caring interventions
Published in Graham A. Jackson, Debbie Tolson, Textbook of Dementia Care, 2019
Evidence of the therapeutic potential of reminiscence is growing and a recent meta-analysis demonstrates that benefits to both cognition and depressive symptoms (Huang et al. 2015). Favourable effects have also been shown on agitation and dysphoria (Low et al. 2015). Other studies highlight a range of observed benefits including positive impacts on verbal communication, expressions of joy and pride, positive anticipation (Coll-Planas et al. 2017). Although it would seem logical to include carers in therapeutic reminiscence a major trial by Woods et al. (2012) that involved 487 caring dyads (person with dementia and family carer) reported an increase in carer stress and anxiety and unexpectedly showed no difference in measured outcomes for individuals between the control and intervention group, although feedback was very positive.
Protective Factors and Processes Fostering Resilience and Buffering Psychosocial Distress among Later-Life Egyptian Immigrants
Published in Journal of Gerontological Social Work, 2020
Furthermore, the findings of this research corroborate findings of previous research in highlighting the efficacy of reminiscence as a coping mechanism. Previous research has documented that reminiscence can serve as a way for enjoyment and remembering good and happy times. Equally important, it can also serve as a life review process and working toward resolving past and/or present issues of change and loss through revisiting certain memories throughout one’s entire life and enhancing a sense of integration, reconciliation, closure, ego-integrity, and peace before death (Biren & Cochran, 2001; Bohlmeijer, Smit, & Cuijpers, 2003; Haber, 2006; Serrano, Latorre, Gatz, & Montanes, 2004). Reminiscence, according to participants, took the form of reliving past experiences through recalling and visualizing them at the present time. It paved an adaptive path to temporarily escape a stressful reality and revisit past memories of productivity, physical strength, independence, and affection. Reminiscence, according to participants, not only transcended time but also “space and distance,” as it served as another conduit to their culture and a “medium of connection” to their “younger” selves. This process reportedly brought “inner peace” as it served to “reconcile negative conditions” with positive memories as it constituted the only viable method of reorienting themselves toward positive memories of mastery and control.
Effect of group reminiscence therapy on depression and perceived meaning of life of veterans diagnosed with dementia at veteran homes
Published in Social Work in Health Care, 2020
Yao Ching-Teng, Yang Ya-Ping, Lin Chia-Ju, Liu Hsiu-Yueh
Proposed by Butler (1963), reminiscence therapy involves older adults experiencing their past through recollection as well as experiential and social activities, thereby earning satisfaction and self-affirmation. According to Soltys and Coats (1995), reminiscence therapy involves assisting people in understanding, reintegrating, and reconstructing their life experience, enabling them to reaffirm themselves and reestablishing their meaning of life. Reminiscence facilitates awareness in older adults for improving their self-expression and self-understanding, enhancing their daily living adaptations, and finding meaning and persistence in life (Sellers & Stork, 1997). Gaggioli et al. (2014) maintained that reminiscence revolves around reexperiencing and sharing past life events, perspectives, and thoughts with others through organized memories and discussions to clear doubts, improve self-understanding, and enhance social adaptations and life satisfaction. Reminiscence therapy was often applied to older adults for whom to recall their life journeys and inner conflicts through written or oral descriptions and reexamined them with positive attitudes (Wu, Chou, Lu, & Tseng, 2006). Using objects, songs, pictures, and written or oral descriptions, reminiscence therapy guides older adults to recall their past to reexperience and reinterpret their past to help them understand themselves, alleviate their depression and feelings of loss, and improve their self-esteem and life satisfaction (Chiang et al., 2010; Chueh & Chang, 2014; Dong & Chen, 2013; Wu, 2011).
That's how the light gets in: Music and assisted dying
Published in Journal of Psychosocial Oncology, 2020
“Remember those car rides out to the country when we were five, John? You guys made me sit in the middle and you’d pull my hair,” John’s sister laughed, wiping away tears. John smiled, eyes closed. Reminiscence. “Your life inspires us. Please know that,” his brother said, taking the tissue box from his sister. Reflection. It was noon. I had begun to realize that I would be here at least until the intervention doctor arrived. John had invited me into the sacred ritual of saying goodbye: of witnessing, of parting, of suffering, of dying. Drawing on soothing lullaby modalities and familiar folk songs, making use of meter changes and texture shifts, I trusted that the music was holding the space for John’s family. One fifteen p.m. “I don’t know how you’re doing this right now,” John said, looking up at me. “How do you have the stamina?” Laughter. “I’m wondering the same thing about you,” I said grinning. He sighed, a tiny smile. His wife leaned in. “You’re almost there.”