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| An empirical test of language relevant interventions for dementia | | Author(s) | Susannah Runci, Colleen Doyle, Jenny Redman |
| Journal title | International Psychogeriatrics, vol 11, no 3, September 1999 |
| Pages | pp 301-312 |
| Keywords | Dementia ; Behaviour disorders ; Noise ; Older women ; Italian language ; Psychiatric treatment ; Australia. |
| Annotation | Noisemaking is a behavioural manifestation associated with severe dementia, which can have devastating effects on those with dementia by limiting their access to activity and social interaction, and can also be distressing for professionals and carers. It can be especially difficult for carers when they do not speak the first language of the person with the noisemaking problem, when the person has lost his or her ability to speak English as the dementia progresses. Behavioural interventions have been found to be successful in decreasing the occurrence of noisemaking in some people with severe dementia. This article reports on a study of an older Italian woman with dementia. The study used a randomised, alternating treatments design, to determine whether an Italian language intervention would be more effective in reducing her noisemaking than the same intervention in English. The main result was that the Italian intervention was significantly more effective. The study provides empirical evidence for increased effectiveness of an intervention in a patient's mother tongue. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-000127215 A |
| Classmark | EA: EP: RAN: BD: 6WI: LP: 7YA |
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