Titlebook: Alzheimer Talk, Text and Context; Enhancing Communicat Boyd H. Davis Book 2005 Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limit

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There was an Old Woman: Maintenance of Identity by People with Alzheimer’s Dementia. An individual’s ability to produce and retain self-identity is a requisite skill for social interaction. Researchers have demonstrated that this ability is not destroyed by the onset and progression of Alzheimer’s disease itself (Kitwood 1990; 1993, 1997; Kitwood and Bredin 1992a; 1992b; Sabat and

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Evidencing Kitwood’s Personhood Strategies: Conversation as Care in Dementia (1997a) as central to affirming personhood of individuals with dementia. We focus upon the enactment of these strategies in the challenging environment of long-term care. In these facilities, residents typically are in the moderate or severe stages of dementia; staff are necessarily task-oriented;

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Speak to Me, Listen to Me: Ethnic and Gender Variations in Talk and Potential Consequences in Interati 1997), states that talk is a tool speakers use in various ways in differing circumstances. The successful use of talk as a tool in conversation depends on ways of speaking or practices related to one’s cultural assumptions and social positions. These are learned over a lifetime and integrated by

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Talking in the Here and Now: Reference and Politeness in Alzheimer Conversation, and on which we base this case study of reference and politeness in Alzheimer conversation. Some of our conversations were short and some were shorter — Wilcox was not loquacious. Indeed, staff in the Alzheimer’s unit at Pleasant Meadows, a private retirement and assisted living facility in Charlo

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Carousel Conversation: Aspects of Family Roles and Topic Shift in Alzheimer’s Talkhey are disconcerting, difficult, and often disorienting for the family caregiver. Caregiver and DAT relative often use different frames and different discourse rules. There can be humorous exchanges because the speakers’ frames don’t match and they expect different results, that is, they no longer

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Alzheimer’s Speakers and Two Languages of this research has been to describe specific language-related deficiencies that can help identify people with AD in contrast to people with only slightly different symptoms. The description of deficiencies has been the basis for research that links language-related deficiencies to stages of an on

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Writers with Dementia: the Interplay among Reading, Writing, and Personhooded dementias mention losses in reading and writing skills, while simultaneously commenting that maintaining these activities is good exercise for the brain. In this chapter, we consider how people with dementia make use of reading and writing activities to enhance memory, satisfaction, self-esteem,