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| Training for Alzheimer's disease caregivers for successful communication | | Author(s) | Danielle N Ripich, Elaine Ziol, Thomas Fritsch |
| Journal title | Clinical Gerontologist, vol 21, no 1, 1999 |
| Pages | pp 37-56 |
| Source | http://www.tandfonline.com |
| Keywords | Dementia ; Family care ; Communication ; Training [welfare work] ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | A study of 54 Alzheimer's disease (AD) caregivers was conducted to investigate the effects of caregiver communication training. To improve communication with their family members with AD, 32 caregivers participated in an 8-hour training programme (FOCUSED). Ten of the caregivers were also given follow-up training (FOCUSED-Booster). The questioning patterns of the two groups of FOCUSED trained caregivers planning a menu with their family members with AD were compared to a control group of 22 caregivers. Analyses revealed that for all caregivers, open-ended questions, when compared with yes/no and choice questions, resulted in more failed responses by persons with AD. Following training, at 6 months both groups of trained caregivers asked fewer open-ended questions compared to the control group. The findings suggest that communication partners of persons with AD can be trained to structure questions that result in more successful communication. (AKM). |
| Accession Number | CPA-000419419 A |
| Classmark | EA: P6:SJ: U: QW: 7T |
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