Note: This article, expressing the thoughts of Gail S. Fidler, was being developed jointly by Mrs. Fidler and Nedra P. Gillette at the time of Mrs. Fidler’s death, April 26, 2005. It was completed using notes recorded during an extensive interview and reminiscence session the 2nd week in February. Fidler, G. S., Gillette, N. P. (2005). A firm persuasion in our work—Passion and perseverance. Ame...

In this paper we present the reminiscence process in a prototype memory support tool for persons with mild dementia. The purpose is to promote autonomy for persons with mild dementia by supporting actualization and maintenance of episodic memories, and real-time access to a context-annotated life log. The main research challenges are defined with a user scenario, Suitable reminiscence methods a...

Introduction Apathy is a prevalent neuropsychiatric symptom for older adults residing in aged care. Left untreated, apathy has been associated with accelerated cognitive decline and increased risk of mortality. Reminiscence therapy commonly used care demonstrated to reduce apathy. Traditional methods reminiscence use physical objects more recently technology including tablets laptop computers h...

This paper discusses the role of reminiscence systems, used to support reminiscing work. It is intended to provide an overview of the area of reminiscing research and to define the technologies that are used in such research. Recommendations on future directions in reminiscence systems research are provided.

BACKGROUND The growing number of people with dementia, and the increasing cost of care, provides a major incentive to develop and test methods of supporting them in the community for longer. Most attention has been given to pharmacological interventions, but there is increasing recognition that psychosocial interventions may be equally effective, even preferable where medication has negative si...

objective: the present study aimed to determine the effect of reminiscence on cognitive status and memory of a sample of elderly people who lived in aged day centers in golestan province, iran. methods: this study was a semi-experimental research. the subjects consisted of 45 elderly people who referred to the aged day centers of golestan province. each four groups of 45 aged subjects (4 groups...

OBJECTIVE To conduct a systematic review of the evidence for the effectiveness of a range of possible treatments for depression in older people. DATA SOURCES Literature search using the PubMed, PsycInfo and Cochrane Library databases. DATA SYNTHESIS Treatments that have been suggested to be effective for depression were grouped under three categories: medical treatments, psychological treat...

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).