A Critical Review of Memory Stimulation Programs in Alzheimer's Disease

Grandmaison, Éric; Simard, Martine

doi:10.1176/jnp.15.2.130

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“…Despite the uncertainty about the exact nature of the collaborative advantage, this study supports the claim made by Quayhagen and Quayhagen (2001) that cognitive rehabilitation for persons with dementia benefits from active participation of caregivers (see also De Vreese, Neri, Fioravanti, Belloi, & Zanetti, 2001;Grandmaison & Simard, 2003).…”

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confidence: 82%

Collaborative memory intervention in dementia: Caregiver participation matters

Neely

Vikström

Josephsson

2009

Neuropsychological Rehabilitation

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The aim of the study was to examine the effectiveness of a collaborative memory intervention for persons with dementia and their spousal caregivers, where the couple acquired and practised memory supportive strategies (spaced-retrieval and hierarchical cuing) to learn a face-name association and to set a table for coffee/tea. The collaborative intervention was compared to an individual intervention where the person with dementia received the same training but without the participating caregiver and to a control group of couples receiving no training. The results showed that following collaborative intervention recall performance in two collaborative tasks became more equally shared between the spouses, reflected in a decrease in recall for the caregiver and in an increase in recall for the spouse with dementia between pre- and post-test; whereas for the other two groups the caregivers dominated collaborative recall both at pre- and post-test. The results also showed that the persons with dementia in the collaborative group improved their individually assessed episodic memory performance as compared to the persons with dementia in the other two groups. Finally, training had no effects on episodic memory, perceived burden or depressive symptoms for the caregivers. These results suggest that the active participation of the caregiver matters in cognitive dementia rehabilitation.

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Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 82%

Collaborative memory intervention in dementia: Caregiver participation matters

Neely

Vikström

Josephsson

2009

Neuropsychological Rehabilitation

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“…A number of studies have shown that increasing cognitive support can attenuate the memory losses associated with normal aging (Bäckman & Small, 1998) and disease-related declines (Bäckman & Small, 1998;Herlitz et al, 1992). This has stimulated the development of intervention programs designed to assist those with failing memory (Grandmaison & Simard, 2003).…”

Section: Cognitive Support and Memorymentioning

confidence: 99%

The Role of Adolescent IQ and Gender in the Use of Cognitive Support for Remembering in Aging

Fritsch

Larsen

Smyth

2007

Aging, Neuropsychology, and Cognition

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The purpose of this study was to examine the role of adolescent IQ (AIQ) and gender in older adults' ability to use cognitive support to enhance memory. Subjects were 269 mid-1940s graduates of the same high school. Adolescent IQ scores were gathered from archives, and subjects' memory for words was tested with tasks that provided increasing cognitive support. Overall, subjects benefited from support; women recalled more words than men; and persons with a high AIQ remembered more words than persons with a lower AIQ. However, while all subjects showed gains from cognitive support, men with a lower AIQ performed worse than men with a high AIQ. Women's performance was not dependent on their AIQ. Analysis of qualitative memory indicators suggested that women and persons with a high AIQ had better encoding and retrieval operations. Men with a lower AIQ appear to be particularly vulnerable to memory deficits in aging. This may be due to low "cognitive reserve" or generally poorer episodic memory function.

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“…Although the memory impairment and atrophy are less severe in MCI-A than in AD, these alterations clearly indicate that there is a cognitive and biological rationale supporting the utilisation of similar cognitive training techniques in MCI-A and AD. Therefore, the selection of techniques such as errorless (EL) learning and spaced retrieval (SR), that have shown good preliminarily efficacy in AD (for reviews see Grandmaison & Simard, 2003;Sitzer, Twamley, & Jeste, 2006), seem well-justified in MCI-A. Briefly, EL consists of reducing or eliminating errors during the encoding phase (Wilson, Baddeley, Evans, & Shiel, 1994), whereas SR aims at gradually increasing intervals between recalls (Camp, 1989;Camp & McKitrick, 1992), thus facilitating retrieval.…”

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Efficacy of a cognitive training programme for mild cognitive impairment: Results of a randomised controlled study

Jean

Simard

Wiederkehr

et al. 2010

Neuropsychological Rehabilitation

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This study aimed to determine the efficacy of cognitive training in a 10-week randomised controlled study involving 22 individuals presenting with mild cognitive impairment of the amnestic type (MCI-A). Participants in the experimental group (n = 11) learned face-name associations using a paradigm combining errorless (EL) learning and spaced retrieval (SR) whereas participants in the control group (n = 11) were trained using an errorful (EF) learning paradigm. Psycho-educational sessions on memory were also provided to all participants. After neuropsychological screening and baseline evaluations, the cognitive training took place in 6 sessions over a 3-week period. The post-training and follow-up evaluations, at one and four weeks respectively, were performed by research assistants blind to the participant's study group. The results showed that regardless of the training condition, all participants improved their capacity to learn face-name associations. A significant amelioration was also observed in participant satisfaction regarding their memory functioning and in the frequency with which the participants used strategies to support memory functions in daily life. The absence of difference between groups on all variables might be partly explained by the high variability of scores within the experimental group. Other studies are needed in order to verify the efficacy of EL learning and SR over EF in MCI-A.

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A Critical Review of Memory Stimulation Programs in Alzheimer's Disease

Cited by 97 publications

References 78 publications

Collaborative memory intervention in dementia: Caregiver participation matters

Collaborative memory intervention in dementia: Caregiver participation matters

The Role of Adolescent IQ and Gender in the Use of Cognitive Support for Remembering in Aging

Efficacy of a cognitive training programme for mild cognitive impairment: Results of a randomised controlled study

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