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This collection augments clinical inventories of Alzheimer's studies with an emphasis on the ways caregivers and researchers can focus on communication enhancement and person-centered care. The contributors examine discourse boundaries and social relationships, gender-cued interaction and life-course analysis, online text by and about Alzheimer's speech, and ways Alzheimer's speakers co-construct stories, in more than one language, with caregivers and conversation partners. Their research uncovers ways to better communicate with Alzheimer's speakers by accommodating their particular communication skills. Annotation ©2006 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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The contributors to this volume reference a shared, longitudinal corpus of spontaneous conversation elicited in natural settings from speakers with moderate to late moderate Alzheimer's Disease, utilizing other collections as appropriate, to analyze conversation, discourse and written text by and about Alzheimer's speech. Cross-disciplinary contributions from the USA, Canada, New Zealand and Germany, representing linguistics, gerontology, geriatric nursing, computer science, and communications disorders report on empirically-based investigations of social and pragmatic language competencies and strategies retained by AD patients which could ground communication enhancements or interventions.
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