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O2‐07–07: A factor analysis of grief differences between spouse and adult child Alzheimer caregivers: The influence of familial roles
Author(s) -
Frank Jacquelyn B.,
Johnson David K.
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
alzheimer's and dementia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 6.713
H-Index - 118
eISSN - 1552-5279
pISSN - 1552-5260
DOI - 10.1016/j.jalz.2008.05.364
Subject(s) - worry , sadness , spouse , psychology , confirmatory factor analysis , clinical psychology , family caregivers , loneliness , grief , developmental psychology , psychiatry , structural equation modeling , medicine , anxiety , gerontology , anger , statistics , mathematics , sociology , anthropology
tinue their talk almost if the Alzheimer’s individual had not spoken. These utterances described imagined events, were not based on commonly held knowledge or displayed a lack of understanding or confusion.. In such sequences, the healthy speaker’s lack of response framed the Alzheimer’s individual as a non-participant. Conclusions: This study offers an initial examination of the effects of Alzheimer’s disease on family communication within the home. By investigating these detailed conversational sequences at a local level, individual bids to participate as well as strategies to maintain coherence and normalize conversation emerge in temporally unfolding interaction. Coherence in conversation appears to be contextually designed on a moment by moment basis by systematic and collaborative changes in participation frameworks as a multi-party interaction. By examining naturally occurring conversation as evidenced based data, this research will lead to an improved understanding of daily communication occurring between Alzheimer’s individuals and their families.