OBJECTIVE In 1994 a pilot intergenerational project was started in the city of Taguatinga, Brazil, to promote the well-being of both elderly and adolescent populations using reminiscence processes as a means of interaction. The purpose of the study is to evaluate the project from the participants' viewpoint and to improve the contribution of those age groups in building up social capital. MET...

objectives: the aim of present study was to investigate the effect of cognitive rehabilitation, a new and non-pharmacological approach to reduce memory and other cognitive deficits in alzheimer's disease. methods & materials: this study was a quasi-experimental research, in singlesubject study-with control group- and based on an a-b design. that was conducted in two groups of control and e...

Dementia is a progressive, degenerative cognitive disorder that can lead to a significant loss of independent functioning. This may lead to a profound negative impact upon families and caregivers. Many studies have found a statistically significant correlation between agitation and dementia. Research noted patients with agitated behaviors had resistance towards care, developed sleep disorders, ...

In Alzheimer's disease (AD), atrophy negatively impacts cognition while in healthy adults, inverse relationships between brain volume and cognition may occur. We investigated correlations between gray matter volume and cognition in elderly controls, AD and mild cognitive impairment (MCI) patients with memory and executive deficits. AD demonstrated substantial loss in temporal, parietal and fron...

INTRODUCTION Alzheimer disease (AD) is one of the most common diseases among the older adults. Currently, various nonpharmacological interventions are used for the treatment of AD. Such as reminiscence therapy is being widely used in Western countries. However, it is often used as an empirical application in China; the evidence-based efficacy of reminiscence therapy in AD patients remains to be...

The reminiscence bump is the tendency to recall more autobiographical memories from adolescence and early adulthood than from adjacent lifetime periods. In this online study, the robustness of the reminiscence bump was examined by looking at participants' judgements about the quality of football players. Dutch participants (N = 619) were asked who they thought the five best players of all time ...

Cognitive linguistics (CL) refers to the school of linguistics that understands language creation, learning, and usage as best explained by reference to human cognition in general. With increase in age human cognition improves, which can be measured through tasks based on cognitive-linguistics. The tasks include attention and concentration, orientation, memory, organization etc. But these skill...

Cognitive abilities are fundamental for decision-making, and understanding the causes of human capital depreciation in old age is especially important an aging society. Using a longitudinal labor survey that collects direct proxy measures cognitive skills, we study effect educational attainment on performance late adulthood South Africa. We find robust evidence increase year schooling improves ...

PURPOSE OF THE STUDY Existing research suggests that specific ways of recalling autobiographical memories of one's past cluster in self-positive, self-negative, and prosocial reminiscence functions. We undertook the present qualitative study to gain understanding of reminiscence functions as described by 269 Israeli Holocaust survivors and to see whether groupings of themes that emerged would c...