BACKGROUND Happiness has a considerable impact on elderly quality of life. Reminiscence therapy can be an effective intervention in increasing the positive emotions among elderly. OBJECTIVES This study was performed to investigate the effect of reminiscence therapy on Iranian elderly women's happiness. PATIENTS AND METHODS This randomized clinical trial conducted on 32 elderly women (census...

Reminiscence therapy is garnering attention for stimulating seniors’ cognitive functions. It could be inferred that synergistic effects created by combining virtual reality (VR), which can project realistic images, with recall, stimulates memory. We hypothesized projecting memories to stimulate VR-based reminiscence would function better than conventional photo-based therapy. randomly assigned ...

The metaphor of life-logging (personal e-memory) promises a complimentary assistance to the biological human memory. However life-log information, which is collected from raw context sensors data, is weakly coupled with real life events. Further forgetting, an inherent feature of human memory, is not supported in life-logs. To address these limitations of life-logs we propose two novel approach...

The research presented in this paper investigates the construction and feasibility of use of an ontology of reminiscence in a conversational agent (CA) with suitable reminiscence mechanisms for non-clinical use within a healthy aging population who may have memory loss as part of normal aging and thereby improve subjective well-being (SWB).

INTRODUCTION Peripheral arterial disease, as measured by the ankle-brachial index (ABI), is prevalent among the elderly, and is associated with functional performance, assessed by the 6-minute walk test (6MWT). Executive cognitive function (ECF) impairments are also prevalent in this population, but no existing study has investigated the association between ECF and functional performance in an ...

background:purpose of present study was to investigate whether chronic exposure to zinc fume would affect serum zinc levels, memory, and cognition in zinc fume-exposed workers. methods:in a cross-sectional study, all zinc fume-exposed workers (exposed, n=20) were compared with unexposed workers (reference, n=20) matched for sex and education level in a zinc galvanization factory. the workers we...

Reminiscence therapy has been known to provide relief against depression and behavioral psychological symptoms of dementia. This used for decades as a nonpharmacological treatment or tool that produced both positive negative results. paper explores the current trends in reminiscence elderly. Some these involve use technology such mobile apps robotics while others follow more traditional proven ...

ABSTRACT Objective: to analyze the cognitive capacity and functional development of elderly with without diabetes. Methods: case-control study, comparing people 218 patients interviewed in outpatient clinics: geriatrics endocrinology. Validated instruments were used for assessment. Results: diabetes had low scores on tests. HbA1c education related memory loss, compromising basic instrumental ac...