1. Problem-Solving Strategies in Dementia Patient-Caregiver Dyads
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Cathy Feller, George Niederehe, Darci Volpendesta, Ernest Frugé, John C. Cavanaugh, Nancy Jo Dunn, and Doug Mowery
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Adult ,Male ,Program evaluation ,Zone of proximal development ,Home Nursing ,Developmental psychology ,Interpersonal relationship ,Cognition ,Intervention (counseling) ,Cognitive development ,medicine ,Humans ,Dementia ,Interpersonal Relations ,Problem Solving ,Aged ,Family caregivers ,General Medicine ,Middle Aged ,medicine.disease ,Paired-Associate Learning ,Female ,Geriatrics and Gerontology ,Psychology ,Gerontology ,Program Evaluation ,Clinical psychology - Abstract
Examined was the applicability of concepts of the zone of proximal development and scaffolding to the study of dementia. Caregiver-patient dyads were compared to normal elderly dyads in the instructional strategies they used to complete the Block Design subtest of the WAIS-R. Shown by the results was that the use of a detailed behavioral coding scheme was successful in documenting systematic differences between the two groups. Potential use in assessment and intervention is discussed.
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- 1989
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