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Direct linkChao, S. F.; McCallion, P.; Nickle, T. – Journal of Intellectual Disability Research, 2011
Background: Burnout has been considered important to understanding the well-being of workers in the intellectual disabilities (ID) field and the quality of services delivered to clients/consumers. However, little research has examined the psychometric properties and applicability to staff in ID services of one of the most widely used burnout…
Descriptors: Measures (Individuals), Burnout, Factor Structure, Factor Analysis
Jefferies, Elizabeth; Grogan, John; Mapelli, Cristina; Isella, Valeria – Neuropsychologia, 2012
Patients with semantic dementia (SD) show deficits in phoneme binding in immediate serial recall: when attempting to reproduce a sequence of words that they no longer fully understand, they show frequent migrations of phonemes between items (e.g., cap, frog recalled as "frap, cog"). This suggests that verbal short-term memory emerges directly from…
Descriptors: Speech, Phonemes, Semantics, Dementia
Vandenberg, Anna E.; Price, Anna E.; Friedman, Daniela B.; Marchman, Graham; Anderson, Lynda A. – Gerontologist, 2012
Purpose of the Study: We examined messages that the websites of the top cable news companies (MSNBC, FOX, and CNN) conveyed about cognition between January 2007 and March 2010. Drawing on agenda-setting theory, this work assessed the frequency, prominence, and attributes of cognitive topics in messages targeting an aging audience. Design and…
Descriptors: News Media, Web Sites, Journalism, Aging (Individuals)
Grossman, Murray; Gross, Rachel G.; Moore, Peachie; Dreyfuss, Michael; McMillan, Corey T.; Cook, Philip A.; Ash, Sherry; Siderowf, Andrew – Brain and Language, 2012
While grammatical aspects of language are preserved, executive deficits are prominent in Lewy body spectrum disorder (LBSD), including Parkinson's disease (PD), Parkinson's dementia (PDD) and dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB). We examined executive control during sentence processing in LBSD by assessing temporary structural ambiguities. Using an…
Descriptors: Sentence Structure, Form Classes (Languages), Dementia, Diseases
Esbensen, Anna J.; Mailick, Marsha R.; Silverman, Wayne – American Journal on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, 2013
Parental characteristics were significant predictors of health, functional abilities, and behavior problems in adults with Down syndrome ("n" ?=? 75) over a 22-year time span, controlling for initial levels and earlier changes in these outcomes. Lower levels of behavior problems were predicted by improvements in maternal depressive…
Descriptors: Parents, Individual Characteristics, Predictor Variables, Behavior Problems
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
de Boysson, C.; Belleville, S.; Phillips, N. A.; Johns, E. K.; Goupil, D.; Souchay, C.; Bouchard, R.; Chertkow, H. – Brain and Cognition, 2011
The primary goal of this study was to evaluate the false recognition phenomenon in persons with frontotemporal dementia (FTD) and those with Lewy-body disease (LBD). Patients with LBD (n=10) or FTD (n=15) and their corresponding controls (n=30) were subjected to the Deese-Roediger-McDermott (DRM) paradigm to induce false recognition. Patients were…
Descriptors: Dementia, Word Lists, Inhibition, Brain
Dixon, Mark; Baker, Jonathan C.; Sadowski, Katherine Ann – Behavior Therapy, 2011
Skinner's 1957 analysis of verbal behavior has demonstrated a fair amount of utility to teach language to children with autism and other various disorders. However, the learning of language can be forgotten, as is the case for many elderly suffering from dementia or other degenerative diseases. It appears possible that Skinner's operants may…
Descriptors: Visual Stimuli, Verbal Stimuli, Autism, Dementia
Download full textTrahan, Maranda A.; Kahng, SungWoo; Fisher, Alyssa B.; Hausman, Nicole L. – Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 2011
It is estimated that 1 in 10 adults aged 65 years and older have been diagnosed with dementia, which is associated with numerous behavioral excesses and deficits. Despite the publication of a special section of the "Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis" ("JABA") on behavioral gerontology (Iwata, 1986), there continues to be a paucity of…
Descriptors: Emotional Disturbances, Dementia, Gerontology, Older Adults
Simmons, Daniela – Educational Gerontology, 2011
Nonhome-based long-term care sustainable living arrangements for elderly people with Alzheimer's is presented. Characteristics contributing to sustainability are discussed. The ultimate goal in sustainable design for older adult communities is a people-centered model of care in environments that improve their quality of life. Without sustainable…
Descriptors: Dementia, Quality of Life, Older Adults, Sustainable Development
Edvardsson, David; Innes, Anthea – Gerontologist, 2010
Purpose of the study: To present a critical comparative review of published tools measuring the person-centeredness of care for older people and people with dementia. Design and Methods: Included tools were identified by searches of PubMed, Cinahl, the Bradford Dementia Group database, and authors' files. The terms "Person-centered,"…
Descriptors: Alzheimers Disease, Caregivers, Psychometrics, Dementia
Knels, Christina; Danek, Adrian – Brain and Language, 2010
This article provides a detailed assessment of patient HT with a history of progressive language deterioration of approximately 6 years presenting now as a fluent jargon aphasic with severe impairment of both speech production and comprehension. Neuropsychological testing of non-verbal cognitive functions showed no impairment, leading to the…
Descriptors: Speech, Semantics, Dementia, Aphasia
McKee, Ann C.; Stein, Thor D.; Nowinski, Christopher J.; Stern, Robert A.; Daneshvar, Daniel H.; Alvarez, Victor E.; Lee, Hyo-Soon; Hall, Garth; Wojtowicz, Sydney M.; Baugh, Christine M.; Riley, David O.; Kubilus, Caroline A.; Cormier, Kerry A.; Jacobs, Matthew A.; Martin, Brett R.; Abraham, Carmela R.; Ikezu, Tsuneya; Reichard, Robert Ross; Wolozin, Benjamin L.; Budson, Andrew E.; Goldstein, Lee E.; Kowall, Neil W.; Cantu, Robert C. – Brain, 2013
Chronic traumatic encephalopathy is a progressive tauopathy that occurs as a consequence of repetitive mild traumatic brain injury. We analysed post-mortem brains obtained from a cohort of 85 subjects with histories of repetitive mild traumatic brain injury and found evidence of chronic traumatic encephalopathy in 68 subjects: all males, ranging…
Descriptors: Neurological Impairments, Head Injuries, Chronic Illness, Brain
Karel, Michele J.; Gatz, Margaret; Smyer, Michael A. – American Psychologist, 2012
Until relatively recently, most psychologists have had limited professional involvement with older adults. With the baby boomers starting to turn 65 years old in 2011, sheer numbers of older adults will continue to increase. About 1 in 5 older adults has a mental disorder, such as dementia. Their needs for mental and behavioral health services are…
Descriptors: Baby Boomers, Aging (Individuals), Older Adults, Mental Health
Loiselle, Magalie; Rouleau, Isabelle; Nguyen, Dang Khoa; Dubeau, Francois; Macoir, Joel; Whatmough, Christine; Lepore, Franco; Joubert, Sven – Neuropsychologia, 2012
The role of the anterior temporal lobe (ATL) in semantic memory is now firmly established. There is still controversy, however, regarding the specific role of this region in processing various types of concepts. There have been reports of patients suffering from semantic dementia (SD), a neurodegenerative condition in which the ATL is damaged…
Descriptors: Control Groups, Semantics, Dementia, Patients
