As the segment of the population 65 years of age or older continues to grow, the number of individuals with dementia increases proportionally, highlighting the need to design therapies that meet the social and emotional needs of people with dementia. Information and communication technologies (ICT) are potential venues for supporting the delivery of such therapies, including reminiscence therap...

The Savoring Beliefs Inventory (SBI) is a measure designed to assess attitudes toward savoring positive experience within three temporal orientations: the past (reminiscence), the present moment (present enjoyment), and the future (anticipation). The aim of this study was to validate the structure of the SBI-French version. The scale was tested with 335 French-speaking participants. Two models ...

[Purpose] Interventions using music, physical exercise, and reminiscence therapy are widely used both for rehabilitation and care of the elderly. This study aimed to investigate the effect of structured interventions comprising music, physical exercise, and reminiscence therapy on cognitive function and quality of life of the community-dwelling elderly. [Subjects and Methods] The study included...

OBJECTIVES This study integrated results from controlled trials of reminiscence interventions. METHODS Meta-analysis was used to aggregate results from 128 studies on 9 outcome VARIABLES. RESULTS Compared to non-specific changes in control-group members, moderate improvements were observed at posttest with regard to ego-integrity (g=0.64) and depression (g=0.57 standard deviation units). Sm...

Elderly adults, particularly those experiencing institutionalization (permanent residence in a health care facility), face high rates of depression, low self-esteem, and reduced psychological well-being. Reminiscence therapy, the planned use of stimuli to evoke meaningful or positive memories from the past, has been indicated in prior research to be a promising treatment approach for reducing d...

Received Jun 12 th , 2015 Revised Aug 20 th , 2015 Accepted Aug 26 th , 2015 Ongoing development of haptic technology has the capacity to offer considerable development in protection and performance in demanding environments where imaginative and prescient and listening to be compromised. Studies concerning the cognitive psychology of contact are missing and may be useful in the development of ...

BACKGROUND Peer support interventions can improve carer wellbeing and interventions that engage both the carer and person with dementia can have significant mutual benefits. Existing research has been criticised for inadequate rigour of design or reporting. This paper describes the protocol for a complex trial that evaluates one-to-one peer support and a group reminiscence programme, both separ...