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Effects of individualized memory aids on the conversation of persons with severe dementia — a pilot study
Author(s)	A McPherson, F G Furniss, C Sdogati
Journal title	Aging & Mental Health, vol 5, no 3, August 2001
Pages	pp 289-294
Source	http://www.tandfonline.com
Keywords	Dementia ; Cognitive processes ; Memory and Reminiscence ; Pilot.
Annotation	Michelle Bourgeois has shown that use of simple memory aids enhances the quality of conversation of people with moderate Alzheimer-type dementia. The authors replicated Bourgeois' intervention with five people with severe dementia (Mini-Mental State Examination scores 0-4) and diagnoses of Alzheimer-type or vascular dementia, and evaluated the impact of the aids on the proportion of time participants spent on-topic in conversation with carers. For three participants, use of the memory aid did not increase the proportion of time spent on-topic. The other two participants, however, spent approximately twice as much time on-topic when using the aid as when conversing without it. These results extend Bourgeois' work, by showing that memory aids are helpful to some people with severe dementia. (RH).
Accession Number	CPA-010927217 A
Classmark	EA: DA: DB: 4UC
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