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Cindy Deanne Plunkett – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Worldwide, 50 million people live with dementia. There is a failure to identify best practices for teaching students to identify the common features of dementia and to determine effective ways to prevent behavioral and psychological symptoms of dementia. The purpose of this quantitative quasi-experimental study was to examine whether exposure to a…
Descriptors: Computer Simulation, Dementia, Allied Health Occupations Education, Empathy
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Calabria, Marco; Cotelli, Maria; Adenzato, Mauro; Zanetti, Orazio; Miniussi, Carlo – Brain and Cognition, 2009
Recent studies have demonstrated that patients suffering from frontotemporal lobar degeneration (FTLD) show impairments in empathy and emotional processing. In this study, we examined two different aspects of these abilities in a patient with semantic dementia (SD), a variant of FTLD. The first aspect was the assessment of the cognitive and…
Descriptors: Semantics, Dementia, Patients, Empathy