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- Title
MEMORY WALLET INTERVENTION IN AN ADULT DAY-CARE SETTING.
- Authors
Bourgeouis, Michelle S.; Mason, Lisa A.
- Abstract
The use of memory wallets to prompt factual information during conversations with day-care center volunteers was evaluated for four subjects with dementia. Memory wallets contained 15–20 pictures and sentences about familiar persons, places, and events that each subject had difficulty remembering. All subjects used the memory wallets to improve their conversations by increasing factual statements and decreasing ambiguous, unintelligible, and perseverative uuerances. Volunteers decreased their use of questions and prompts during conversations in which subjects used their memory wallets. These results demonstrate the effectiveness of using volunteers to develop memory wallets and to encourage their use during conversations with day-care clients.
- Subjects
DEMENTIA; MEMORY; MEMORY disorders in old age; ADULT day care centers; NEUROBEHAVIORAL disorders; SENILE dementia; BEHAVIOR therapy; PSYCHOSES; BRAIN diseases; PSYCHOLOGY; PATHOLOGICAL psychology
- Publication
Behavioral Interventions, 1996, Vol 11, Issue 1, p3
- ISSN
1072-0847
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/(SICI)1099-078X(199601)11:1<3::AID-BRT150>3.0.CO;2-0