Spiritual and Pastoral Care Approaches for Helping Older Adults with Depression

2004 ◽  
Vol 16 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 91-107
Author(s):  
John White
Keyword(s):  
Older Adults ◽  
Pastoral Care

Pastoral Care of Older Adults

2002 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zoltan KIRALY
Keyword(s):  
Older Adults ◽  
Pastoral Care

scholarly journals Cultivating Hope Among Medically Traumatized Older Adults: A Narrative Perspective

Lumen et Vita ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
Author(s):  
Danielle Heitmann
Keyword(s):  
Older Adults ◽  
Pastoral Care ◽  
Narrative Therapy ◽  
Medical Profession ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Narrative Perspective ◽  
Patient Narratives ◽  
Counseling Interventions ◽  
The Life Course ◽  
Key Techniques

The sudden need for hospitalization and/or surgery among older adults after a fall can often be discussed by many in the medical profession as the beginning of a series of negative sequelae that may eventually lead to the end of one's life -- or at least the end of one's life as he or she currently knows it. This experience of a fall among this age group can be quite traumatizing, interrupting many of the stories the person has previously held about his or her ability, health and functional capacity. However, narrative informed practice would raise questions regarding the pathology-based discourse that surrounds the patient during hospitalization and rehabilitation in terms of how these stories may serve to label people and diminish hope. Pastoral care for the client in the hospital who has experienced such a shock at this age requires a unique sensitivity. A powerful intervention in this space may prove to be critical to the overall recovery and wellbeing of older adults following such a life event. In particular, proponents of narrative therapy would offer key techniques to specifically interrupt the dominant discourse surrounding falls in order to cultivate hope for recovery among this population. While narrative therapy has been studied across the life course, this paper would examine the particular context of the older adults after falls, hospitalization and/or surgery. In doing so, it intends to examine patient narratives and pastoral care research to identify short-term counseling interventions that promote hope, resiliency, and recovery among this population.

Pastoral Care with Older Adults

1991 ◽  
Vol 88 (3) ◽  
pp. 205-215
Author(s):  
Albert L. Meiburg
Keyword(s):  
Older Adults ◽  
Pastoral Care

A Survey of Pastoral Care Services for Older Adults

2006 ◽  
Vol 3 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 223-242 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kathryn S. Collins ◽  
Tirelo Modie Moroka ◽  
Rich Furman ◽  
Elizabeth Bruce
Keyword(s):  
Older Adults ◽  
Pastoral Care ◽  
Care Services

Book Review and Note: Pastoral Care of Older Adults

1999 ◽  
Vol 53 (3) ◽  
pp. 372-373
Author(s):  
Carroll Saussy
Keyword(s):  
Older Adults ◽  
Pastoral Care

Cognitive control constrains memory attributions

2019 ◽  
Vol 42 ◽  
Author(s):  
Colleen M. Kelley ◽  
Larry L. Jacoby
Keyword(s):  
Alzheimer’S Disease ◽  
Older Adults ◽  
Alzheimer's Disease ◽  
Traumatic Brain Injury ◽  
Brain Injury ◽  
Cognitive Control

Abstract Cognitive control constrains retrieval processing and so restricts what comes to mind as input to the attribution system. We review evidence that older adults, patients with Alzheimer's disease, and people with traumatic brain injury exert less cognitive control during retrieval, and so are susceptible to memory misattributions in the form of dramatic levels of false remembering.

Cognitive Load Affects Speech Motor Performance Differently in Older and Younger Adults

2019 ◽  
Vol 62 (5) ◽  
pp. 1258-1277 ◽  
Author(s):  
Megan K. MacPherson
Keyword(s):  
Older Adults ◽  
Cognitive Load ◽  
Motor Performance ◽  
Age Groups ◽  
Incongruent Condition ◽  
Sentence Production ◽  
Movement Duration ◽  
Production Task ◽  
Younger Adults ◽  
Speech Motor

PurposeThe aim of this study was to determine the impact of cognitive load imposed by a speech production task on the speech motor performance of healthy older and younger adults. Response inhibition, selective attention, and working memory were the primary cognitive processes of interest.MethodTwelve healthy older and 12 healthy younger adults produced multiple repetitions of 4 sentences containing an embedded Stroop task in 2 cognitive load conditions: congruent and incongruent. The incongruent condition, which required participants to suppress orthographic information to say the font colors in which color words were written, represented an increase in cognitive load relative to the congruent condition in which word text and font color matched. Kinematic measures of articulatory coordination variability and movement duration as well as a behavioral measure of sentence production accuracy were compared between groups and conditions and across 3 sentence segments (pre-, during-, and post-Stroop).ResultsIncreased cognitive load in the incongruent condition was associated with increased articulatory coordination variability and movement duration, compared to the congruent Stroop condition, for both age groups. Overall, the effect of increased cognitive load was greater for older adults than younger adults and was greatest in the portion of the sentence in which cognitive load was manipulated (during-Stroop), followed by the pre-Stroop segment. Sentence production accuracy was reduced for older adults in the incongruent condition.ConclusionsIncreased cognitive load involving response inhibition, selective attention, and working memory processes within a speech production task disrupted both the stability and timing with which speech was produced by both age groups. Older adults' speech motor performance may have been more affected due to age-related changes in cognitive and motoric functions that result in altered motor cognition.

Effects of Aging on the Subcortical Encoding of Stop Consonants

2020 ◽  
Vol 29 (3) ◽  
pp. 391-403
Author(s):  
Dania Rishiq ◽  
Ashley Harkrider ◽  
Cary Springer ◽  
Mark Hedrick
Keyword(s):  
Older Adults ◽  
Repeated Measures ◽  
Mixed Model ◽  
Auditory Brainstem ◽  
Auditory Brainstem Responses ◽  
Aging Effects ◽  
Formant Frequency ◽  
Place Of Articulation ◽  
Second Formant ◽  
Effects Of Aging

Purpose The main purpose of this study was to evaluate aging effects on the predominantly subcortical (brainstem) encoding of the second-formant frequency transition, an essential acoustic cue for perceiving place of articulation. Method Synthetic consonant–vowel syllables varying in second-formant onset frequency (i.e., /ba/, /da/, and /ga/ stimuli) were used to elicit speech-evoked auditory brainstem responses (speech-ABRs) in 16 young adults ( M age = 21 years) and 11 older adults ( M age = 59 years). Repeated-measures mixed-model analyses of variance were performed on the latencies and amplitudes of the speech-ABR peaks. Fixed factors were phoneme (repeated measures on three levels: /b/ vs. /d/ vs. /g/) and age (two levels: young vs. older). Results Speech-ABR differences were observed between the two groups (young vs. older adults). Specifically, older listeners showed generalized amplitude reductions for onset and major peaks. Significant Phoneme × Group interactions were not observed. Conclusions Results showed aging effects in speech-ABR amplitudes that may reflect diminished subcortical encoding of consonants in older listeners. These aging effects were not phoneme dependent as observed using the statistical methods of this study.

Partner-Specific Communication Deficits in Individuals With Alzheimer's Disease

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-15
Author(s):  
Eun Jin Paek ◽  
Si On Yoon
Keyword(s):  
Alzheimer’S Disease ◽  
Older Adults ◽  
Alzheimer's Disease ◽  
Referential Communication ◽  
Sorting Task ◽  
Audience Design ◽  
Healthy Older Adults ◽  
Communication Task ◽  
Design Skills ◽  
Referential Expressions

Purpose Speakers adjust referential expressions to the listeners' knowledge while communicating, a phenomenon called “audience design.” While individuals with Alzheimer's disease (AD) show difficulties in discourse production, it is unclear whether they exhibit preserved partner-specific audience design. The current study examined if individuals with AD demonstrate partner-specific audience design skills. Method Ten adults with mild-to-moderate AD and 12 healthy older adults performed a referential communication task with two experimenters (E1 and E2). At first, E1 and participants completed an image-sorting task, allowing them to establish shared labels. Then, during testing, both experimenters were present in the room, and participants described images to either E1 or E2 (randomly alternating). Analyses focused on the number of words participants used to describe each image and whether they reused shared labels. Results During testing, participants in both groups produced shorter descriptions when describing familiar images versus new images, demonstrating their ability to learn novel knowledge. When they described familiar images, healthy older adults modified their expressions depending on the current partner's knowledge, producing shorter expressions and more established labels for the knowledgeable partner (E1) versus the naïve partner (E2), but individuals with AD were less likely to do so. Conclusions The current study revealed that both individuals with AD and the control participants were able to acquire novel knowledge, but individuals with AD tended not to flexibly adjust expressions depending on the partner's knowledge state. Conversational inefficiency and difficulties observed in AD may, in part, stem from disrupted audience design skills.

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