Alzheimer Dis Assoc Disord
November 2023
Purpose: People with dementia (PWD) are one of the fastest-growing clinical populations for speech-language pathologists. Self-reported quality of life (QoL) assessments are critical patient-reported outcome measures that align with person-centered care principles. However, proxy-reporting is most often used due to assumptions that PWD cannot provide reliable self-report.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPurpose The purpose of this study was to determine how quality of life (QoL) is measured in people with dementia involved in interventions designed to improve well-being and to explore how those measures align with principles of person-centered care. Method A systematic literature review was conducted utilizing PsychInfo, CINAHL, and PubMed and combinations of the search terms: "dementia," "outcome measure," "creative engagement," "creative intervention," "TimeSlips," "art," "quality of life," and "well-being." The search was limited to studies published in peer-reviewed journals that reported outcomes for people with dementia in response to a creative intervention.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAim: We examined the long-term effects of concussions in young adult females on visuomotor behavior during a visually-guided reaching task of various complexities.
Materials & Methods: 20 females with a history of longer than 6 months since a concussion and 20 healthy females quickly and accurately performed a delayed reach to a previously cued target.
Results: As both cognitive and motor load increased, task performance decreased for both groups (p < 0.
Clinicians' attitudes toward older adults can influence the quality of the care they provide. The purpose of this study was to demonstrate how to measure the impact of service-learning on undergraduate healthcare students' attitudes toward elders and people with dementia using a theory-grounded qualitative and quantitative assessment, beyond the commonly used pre-test/post-test model. One-hundred forty-five undergraduate students across two midwestern universities participated in service-learning experiences in a long-term care or assisted living environment during one semester.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPurpose: Language comprehension in people with aphasia (PWA) is frequently evaluated using multiple-choice displays: PWA are asked to choose the image that best corresponds to the verbal stimulus in a display. When a nontarget image is selected, comprehension failure is assumed. However, stimulus-driven factors unrelated to linguistic comprehension may influence performance.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Deficits in cognitive flexibility contribute to impaired functional communication in people with aphasia. Understanding the relationship between functional communication and cognitive flexibility in people with neurologic communication disorders is important. However, traditional methods to assess mental set switching pose significant linguistic, cognitive and motoric response confounds.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFUnlabelled: Numerous authors report that people with aphasia have greater difficulty allocating attention than people without neurological disorders. Studying how attention deficits contribute to language deficits is important. However, existing methods for indexing attention allocation in people with aphasia pose serious methodological challenges.
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