PERSON-CENTERED COMMUNICATION AND APATHY IN NURSING HOME RESIDENTS WITH DEMENTIA
Ying-Ling Jao, Yo-Jen Liao, Diane Berish, Jacqueline Mogle, Helen Kales, Marie Boltz · 2023
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Ying-Ling Jao and co-authors study talk and apathy in a 2023 nursing home study. Apathy is common in dementia and tied to poor health, yet care talk that centers the person may ease some behavior symptoms. Whether such talk affects apathy was unclear, so the team filmed daily care sessions.
Seventeen residents with dementia and apathy, and twenty-one care workers, took part across three homes. Each resident was filmed three times during routine care. Talk was coded phrase by phrase, and apathy second by second. Links between warm, person-centered talk and apathy were mixed: some clips showed less apathy with such talk, others more, and many showed no clear link. The authors call the picture unsettled.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Ying-Ling Jao, Yo-Jen Liao, Diane Berish, Jacqueline Mogle, Helen Kales, Marie Boltz |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2023 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 2 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |