Application of co-imagination method to healthy older adults, older adults who need care, and older adults with dementia...9th World Conference of the International Society for Gerontechnology (ISG), June 18-21, 2014, Taipei, Taiwan.
Purpose Prevention of cognitive decline and dementia may contribute to improving quality of life of both older adults and their families1. We propose a novel method called the co-imagination method for the purpose of prevention. It was invented for training cognitive functions which decline at an ea...
| Publicado en: | Gerontechnology Vol. 13; no. 2; pp. 119 - 121 |
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ccm&AN=180444751&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: ccm uiTerm: 180444751 longDbName: CINAHL Complete uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: dissinfo: jinfo: jid: 15691101 904R jtl: Gerontechnology issn: 15691101 maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: 2014 Special Issue vid: 13 iid: 2 pid: 54298 pub: International Society for Gerontechnology artinfo: ui: 180444751 180444751 180444751 10.4017/gt.2014.13.02.247.00 180444751 ppf: 119 ppct: 2 formats: tig: atl: Application of co-imagination method to healthy older adults, older adults who need care, and older adults with dementia...9th World Conference of the International Society for Gerontechnology (ISG), June 18-21, 2014, Taipei, Taiwan. aug: au: OTAKE, M. affil: Center for Environment, Health and Field Sciences, Chiba University, Japan sug: subj: Gerontologic Care Health Services Needs and Demand Needs Assessment Dementia Imagination Cognition Disorders Prevention and Control Models, Theoretical Rehabilitation, Cognitive Methods Congresses and Conferences Taiwan Taiwan ab: Purpose Prevention of cognitive decline and dementia may contribute to improving quality of life of both older adults and their families1. We propose a novel method called the co-imagination method for the purpose of prevention. It was invented for training cognitive functions which decline at an early stage of dementia. Training includes the use of episodic memory, division of attention, and planning by doing everyday tasks such as participating in group conversations. The co-imagination method is defined by the following rules: (i) Participants choose their own photos, illustrations, music, or real objects relevant to a predefined theme; (ii) In order to ensure active participation, the order and allocated time for each participant to describe the photos are determined. The purpose of this study is to design effective protocols of the coimagination method to older adults with diverse cognitive functions through practices. Method The co-imagination method was applied to older adults at a care prevention facility, a care facility, and a hospital in Japan. At the care prevention facility, healthy older adults practiced the method as cognitive training for other healthy older adults in the community in order to prevent cognitive decline. At the care facility, staff practiced the method as day service activity for older adults who needed care. At the hospital, a group of medical doctors, occupational therapists, clinical psychologists, and nurses practiced the method as brain rehabilitation for mild dementia patients. Protocols were designed for each facility, keeping in mind the cognitive level of participants. Results & Discussion Each protocol was classified into three stages: (i) preparation, (ii) conversation, and (iii) recall. At (i) preparation stage, the theme of the forthcoming session was provided for the participants. Healthy older adults prepared topics and took or selected photos by themselves. Other participants were interviewed about their topics by practitioners. Practitioners at the care facility took photos on behalf of participants who couldn't take them by themselves. Practitioners at the hospital prepared materials and objects according to the interview, and took photos of them with the patients. At (ii) conversation stage, healthy older adults and older adults who need care described topics by themselves watching the photos on the screen. Older adults with dementia skipped the description of topics sessions because it was difficult for them. Question and answer sessions were conducted at every facility. Participants asked questions and gave comments at the care prevention facility and the care facility while practitioners helped at the hospital. At (iii) recall stage, memory tasks were conducted at care prevention facility and care facilities. The participants selected a combination of the photos. At the hospital, alternative sessions were conducted instead of the memory task. Practitioners conducted review sessions and showed the photos, which were used during conversation sessions, and triggered free recall for each topic. To summarize, the method was applicable to older adults of different cognitive levels by adjusting the protocol for each participant. Preliminary results suggest that lexicons of the participants, which is inaccessible in Alzheimer's disease, were maintained. Future work includes investigating long term effects of the application of the method and each protocol on cognitive function of each participant by analyzing lexicons of utterances pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: abstract proceedings research Journal Article ougenre: Article language: English refInfo: holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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