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Enabling frail older people with a communication difficulty to express their views
— the use of Talking Mats as an interview tool | | Author(s) | Joan Murphy, Susan Tester, Gill Hubbard |
| Journal title | Health & Social Care in the Community, vol 13, no 2, March 2005 |
| Pages | pp 95-107 |
| Source | www.blackwellpublishing.com/hsc |
| Keywords | Cognitive impairment ; Dementia ; Residents [care homes] ; Participation ; Research ; Quality of life ; Symbols ; Methodology ; Interviewing. |
| Annotation | Talking Mats (Trade Mark) is a visual framework that uses picture symbols to help older people with a communication difficulty to understand and respond more effectively. People with a communication disability are often omitted from qualitative research studies, since they cannot respond to the more traditional methods of interviewing. The 10 participants in this study were frail older people with a range of communication difficulties with causes including stroke, dementia and hearing loss. They had all recently (within 6 months) moved into care homes. Each participant was interviewed using Talking Mats to obtain their views on four aspects of the life: activities, people, environment and self. The findings are presented in a visual way, and the four life themes are discussed with reference to the different participants. Among insights gained were participants' views of the activities they like or dislike, and on their nursing home environment. The study describes the advantages of using Talking Mats as an interview method for research, practice and policy in the care of frail older people, which makes it useful and enjoyable way of enabling them to express views which they would otherwise find difficult. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-050426203 A |
| Classmark | E4: EA: KX: TMB: 3A: F:59: UH7: 3D: 3DL |
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