Rehabilitative Support for Persons with Dementia and Their Families to Acquire Self-Management Attitude and Improve Social Cognition and Sense of Cognitive Empathy
Abstract
:1. Dementia and Social Interaction
1.1. Social Cognition in Dementia
1.2. Difficulties in Social Interaction Due to Decline in Social Cognition and Other Cognitive Function
2. Rehabilitation for Person with Dementia to Improve Social Health
2.1. Social Health in Dementia
2.2. Dementia Rehabilitation from the Perspective of International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health
2.3. Occupational Therapy for People with Dementia
3. Proposal of Rehabilitation Support Using Communication via Activities: Co-Beneficial Relationship-Based Rehabilitation
3.1. Rehabilitation Support for People with Dementia: Social Reserves
3.2. Rehabilitation Support for the Family Members of People with Dementia: Cognitive Empathy
3.3. Role of the Practitioners
3.4. Characteristics of the Rehabilitation Program
4. Intervention Process
- First, listen without interrupting.
- Then, confirm the person’s intended meaning by conversing with them.
- Supplement the missing parts, if necessary and in such situations, use the words that the person with dementia has used, without paraphrasing.
- Confirm the comprehended meaning step by step and reiterate the understood idea (this is the attitude of cognitive empathy).
- Present alternatives, as open questions are difficult for them to configure answers.
- Questions should be divided into small steps and the session should proceed after confirming the steps. Furthermore, it is desirable to obtain feedback and emphasize the good points.
Expected Effects
5. Conclusions
Author Contributions
Funding
Acknowledgments
Conflicts of Interest
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Maki, Y.; Hattori, H. Rehabilitative Support for Persons with Dementia and Their Families to Acquire Self-Management Attitude and Improve Social Cognition and Sense of Cognitive Empathy. Geriatrics 2019, 4, 26. https://doi.org/10.3390/geriatrics4010026
Maki Y, Hattori H. Rehabilitative Support for Persons with Dementia and Their Families to Acquire Self-Management Attitude and Improve Social Cognition and Sense of Cognitive Empathy. Geriatrics. 2019; 4(1):26. https://doi.org/10.3390/geriatrics4010026
Chicago/Turabian StyleMaki, Yohko, and Hideyuki Hattori. 2019. "Rehabilitative Support for Persons with Dementia and Their Families to Acquire Self-Management Attitude and Improve Social Cognition and Sense of Cognitive Empathy" Geriatrics 4, no. 1: 26. https://doi.org/10.3390/geriatrics4010026