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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.
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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).
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
Engaging in reminiscence therapy in conjunction with referencing external memory aids supports interactions critical to fostering the maintenance of communicative and social interaction skills. Although empirical evidence about the beneficial effects of reminiscence therapy remains elusive (Cotelli et al., 2012; Woods et al., 2018), the activity has become a mainstay among professionals working with dementia populations. The technique may be particularly effective when supplemented with external supports such as memory wallets, memory books, reminder cards and memo boards. These supports – while flexible enough to serve different purposes depending on the content included – present obvious opportunities to incorporate photographs. For example, reminder cards and memo boards typically convey short written messages that may change on a regular basis, such as a note stating that a family member will visit later that day to participate in a scheduled reminiscence activity. Adding a photograph may foster understanding of the person referenced in the message or the purpose of the scheduled event. In contrast, memory wallets and memory books are effective for conveying fairly consistent information – such as biographical facts and important life experiences – about the person with dementia.
Alzheimer cafè: toward bridging the gap between cure and care in patients with dementia
Published in International Journal of Neuroscience, 2023
Maria Grazia Maggio, Carmela De Domenico, Alfredo Manuli, Desiree Latella, Angela Marra, Gianluca La Rosa, Simona Portaro, Rocco Salvatore Calabrò
Reminiscence Therapy (RT) consists of a psycho-social rehabilitation intervention based on memories, which are considered as a basis for stimulating residual memory resources and for recovering emotionally pleasurable experiences [29]. The sharing of memories among patients is used as a tool to enhance remote memory capacity by integrating past and recent memories [30]. During the meeting, RT encouraged the patients to talk about their past. This therapy aimed to remember and talk about the experiences lived during adulthood and childhood. Subsequently, the patients were stimulated to verbalize their feelings and problems, favoring a process of introspection and empathic understanding to achieve an ever-greater adaptation to the present and a better level of socialization [31].
Effectiveness of life story book intervention on apathy and verbal fluency in people with dementia
Published in Clinical Gerontologist, 2023
Tomoaki Asano, Chih-Wen Wang, Megumi Tsugaruya, Takashi Ishikawa
.The experimental results indicate that the LSB intervention is promising in improving cognitive function, including verbal fluency, in those with mild to moderate dementia and apathy in those with severe dementia. Notably, despite these positive results, the therapists and facility care staff responsible for the intervention had no specific training in reminiscence therapy or cognitive stimulation and had no experience with these therapies. However, they received a brief orientation on the equipment, the album, and the intervention methods. This contrasts with previous reports (Elfrink et al., 2018; Subramaniam & Woods, 2012; Woods et al., 2018), in which many practitioners had received prior education and training. This may be because LSB is a highly refined communication tool that anyone can use to interact with the participant in the same way. This means that even relatively inexperienced dementia caregivers can provide high-quality interventions without training, which can be cost-effective in terms of personnel expenses.
Tailoring the therapeutic interventions for behavioral and psychological symptoms of dementia
Published in Expert Review of Neurotherapeutics, 2022
Barbara Vuic, Marcela Konjevod, Lucija Tudor, Tina Milos, Matea Nikolac Perkovic, Gordana Nedic Erjavec, Nela Pivac, Suzana Uzun, Ninoslav Mimica, Dubravka Svob Strac
Psychoeducational and psychotherapeutic interventions might reduce BPSD through single or group therapy. These include counseling, supporting the patients and providing assistance for the caregiver, which are all mostly beneficial in alleviating the burden of the caregivers. A combination of these two approaches showed great effect in decreasing aggression, depression, anxiety and, agitation [15]. Reminiscence therapy is an approach used to improve mood through memory stimulation [15]. It involves the patients, the caregivers and family members. By using objects such as photographs, books and familiar items, the aim of this therapy is to share experiences [98]. On the other hand, validation therapy is focused only on BPSD patients, in order to encourage positive feelings, through a reduction of negative feelings [15,99]. Finally, cognitive stimulation includes gardening, puzzles, word games, cooking and other activities, usually performed in small groups [98]. Some studies showed that cognitive stimulation had beneficial effects in BPSD reduction [98].