Reminiscence with Elderly People

Norris, Andrew; Creed, Gisela

doi:10.1016/s0031-9406(10)63675-9

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“…A sense of harmony can also be achieved through contact with nature , music therapy and massage . A means of using the past to enhance present functioning is reminiscence therapy . Whereas reminiscence therapy makes use of physical props or pictures, SPECAL involves the past through a Primary Theme.…”

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The Specialized Early Care for Alzheimer’s method of caring for people with dementia: an investigation of what works and how

McCrae

Penhallow

Rees

et al. 2019

Scandinavian Caring Sciences

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Background and rationale SPECAL is a model of care for people with dementia based on a novel conceptualisation of memory and how this changes in dementia. Carers adapt their communication style to prevent distress and promote well‐being for the person with dementia. However, there is limited scientific evidence on the effectiveness of SPECAL. Aim This study explored mechanisms of SPECAL through a qualitative enquiry with family carers. Method Semi‐structured interviews were conducted with family carers who had been coached in SPECAL and applied its principles and practices. Thematic analysis was applied. Findings All participants had found SPECAL helpful in caring for a person with dementia. The core themes of this positive experience were empathy, harmony and resilience. Synthesis of these themes contributes to a proposed model of the mechanisms of SPECAL. Conclusion In applying SPECAL, carers gained an empathetic insight to the feelings of the person with dementia. This empathy leads to a more harmonious environment, which enhances the carer’s resilience.

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The Specialized Early Care for Alzheimer’s method of caring for people with dementia: an investigation of what works and how

McCrae

Penhallow

Rees

et al. 2019

Scandinavian Caring Sciences

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“…This activity aims to improve mood, well-being, communication and to stimulate memory and strengthen a sense of personal identity [8], [52]. This treatment is based on the assumption that autobiographical memory remains intact until the later stages of dementia and may be used as a form of communication with the person with dementia [37].…”

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Recommending Video Content for Use in Group-Based Reminiscence Therapy

Bermingham

Caprani

Collins

et al. 2015

Health Monitoring and Personalized Feedback Using Multimedia Data

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REMPAD is a semi-automated cloud-based system used to facilitate digital reminiscence therapy for patients with mild-to-moderate dementia, enacted in a group setting. REMPAD uses profiles for participants and groups to proactively recommend interactive video content from the Internet to match these profiles. In this chapter, we focus on the design of the system and then the system architecture, the system build, data curation, and usage scenarios. We also report a series of steps car- ried out as part of our user-centered design approach to system development, and a series of analyses on interaction logs which indicate various levels of effectiveness for different configurations of the recommendation algorithm we use. The results indicate high user satisfaction when using the system, and strong tendency towards repeated use in future.

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“…This activity aims to improve mood, well-being, communication and to stimulate memory and strengthen a sense of personal identity [5], [39]. This treatment is based on the assumption that autobiographical memory remains intact until the later stages of dementia and may be used as a form of communication with the person with dementia [28].…”

Section: Reminiscence Therapymentioning

confidence: 99%

Automatically recommending multimedia content for use in group reminiscence therap

Bermingham

O’Rourke

Gurrin

et al. 2013

Proceedings of the 1st ACM International Workshop on Multimedia Indexing and Information Retrieval for Healthcare

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This paper presents and evaluates a novel approach for automatically recommending multimedia content for use in group reminiscence therapy for people with Alzheimer's and other dementias. In recent years recommender systems have seen popularity in providing a personalised experience in information discovery tasks. This personalisation approach is naturally suited to tasks in healthcare, such as reminiscence therapy, where there has been a trend towards an increased emphasis on person-centred care. Building on recent work which has shown benefits to reminiscence therapy in a group setting, we develop and evaluate a system, REM-PAD, which profiles people with Alzheimer's and other dementias, and provides multimedia content tailored to a given group context. In this paper we present our system and approach, and report on a user trial in residential care settings. In our evaluation we examine the potential to use earlyaggregation and late-aggregation of group member preferences using case-based reasoning combined with a contentbased method. We evaluate with respect to accuracy, utility and perceived usefulness. The results overall are positive and we find that our best-performing approach uses early aggregation CBR combined with a content-based method. Also, under different evaluation criteria, we note different performances, with certain configurations of our approach providing better accuracy and others providing better utility.

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Reminiscence with Elderly People

Cited by 16 publications

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The Specialized Early Care for Alzheimer’s method of caring for people with dementia: an investigation of what works and how

The Specialized Early Care for Alzheimer’s method of caring for people with dementia: an investigation of what works and how

Recommending Video Content for Use in Group-Based Reminiscence Therapy

Automatically recommending multimedia content for use in group reminiscence therap

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