Population: Older adults in the early stages of dementia.
Intervention: The benefits of facilitating reminiscing therapy activities on older adults in the early stages of dementia in an adult day health care setting.
Comparison: Receiving reminiscence therapy activities vs. not receiving reminiscence therapy (in-home caregivers who may simply provide companionship and assist with ADLs)
Outcome: Active participation in reminiscence therapy could lead to short-term benefits in increased communication and interaction, enhanced mood and improved socialization among the participants in an ADHC setting.
Time: The duration of the program, 45 minutes twice a week for four weeks comprised of eight total sessions.
For older adults in the early stages of dementia, how effective is receiving reminiscence therapy on short-term cognition and behavioral improvement in an ADHC versus not receiving reminiscence therapy from at-home caregivers?
RUBRIC: The student must receive both mentor and instructor approval before proceeding to literature review. Approval will be given in the comments after the post.
Eve,
This looks good and is highly detailed. However, I am wondering if tackling both memory recall and reminiscence therapy is realistic for this project. Since I am not completely familiar with this population and intervention, I will leave it up to your mentor to decide what is reasonable doable. Keep in mind, that you will have define both interventions and identify how to measure each. I wonder if memory recall is really an outcome of reminiscence therapy? If this is the case, recall should be listed as such in the PICOT statement.
Hi Evelin! I look forward to hearing more about your research and seeing your activity intervention. I approve your PICOT statement.