Avoiding 'baby-talk' reduces people with dementia's resistence to care workers' actions
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Thursday, August 7, 2008News source:
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International Residents with dementia will respond better to care workers if they avoid using ‘baby talk’, new research suggests.
American researchers have found that residents with dementia were more likely to ‘resist’ care when nursing staff used ‘elderspeak communication’ comprising simplified grammar and vocabulary, substitution of collective pronouns, and overly intimate endearments.
The study, presented at the International Conference on Alzheimer’s Disease in Chicago this week, used scores of ‘resistiveness’ based on the action of residents such as screaming, pushing, pulling or biting, and the severity of the resistence.
The researchers, from the University of Kansas School of Nursing, found that the Resistiveness to Care Scale (RTC) probability was 0.55 when ‘elderspeak’ was used during typical activities such as dressing and washing.
In contrast, the probability of RTC was 0.26 when staff used normal adult communication, while silence resulted in an RTC probability of 0.36.
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