Abstract
Psychological therapies in order to provide cognitive enhancement have gained some momentum the last decades. The goal of this case study was to evaluate the effects of a cognitive enhancement training program on daily living activities, cognition, and depression in a demented elderly participant. A 6-month training program was proposed for the participant, whose overall evaluation results suggest significant deficits impairment but whose response rate to the proposed tasks of the treatment was interestingly high. However, additional research is needed to overall evaluate the efficacy of the proposed method to elderly adults.
Access this chapter
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
References
Baddeley, A., and B.A. Wilson. 1994. When Implicit Learning Fails: Amnesia and the Problem of Error Elimination. Neuropsychologia 32 (1): 53–68.
de Werd, M.M.E., D. Boelen, M.G.M.O. Rikkert, and R.P.C. Kessels. 2013. Errorless Learning of Everyday Tasks in People with Dementia. Clinical Interventions in Aging 8: 1177–1190. doi:10.2147/CIA.S46809.
Humphreys, G.W., W.L. Bickerton, D. Samson, and M.J. Riddoch. 2012. BCoS Cognitive Screen. London: Psychology Press.
Goodglass, H., and E. Kaplan. 1972. The Assessment of Aphasia and Related Disorders. Philadelphia: Lea and Febiger.
Lavie, N. 2005. Distracted and Confused?: Selective Attention Under Load. Trends in Cognitive Sciences 9 (2): 75–82. doi:10.1016/j.tics.2004.12.004.
Belke, E., G.W. Humphreys, D.G. Watson, A.S. Meyer, and A.L. Telling. 2008. Top-Down Effects of Semantic Knowledge in Visual Search are Modulated by Cognitive But Not Perceptual Load. Perception and Psychophysics 70 (8): 1444–1458. http://doi.org/10.3758/PP.70.8.1444.
Beck, A.T. 1976. Cognitive Therapy and the Emotional Disorders. New York: International Universities Press.
Paukert, A.L., J. Calleo, C. Kraus-Schuman, L. Snow, N. Wilson, N.J. Petersen, M.E. Kunik, and M.A. Stanley. 2010. Peaceful Mind: An Open Trial of Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy for Anxiety in Persons with Dementia. International Psychogeriatrics/IPA 22 (6): 1012–1021. doi:10.1017/S1041610210000694.
Malia, K.B., K.C. Bewick, K.J. Raymond, and T.L. Bennett. 1997. Brainwave-R: Cognitive Strategies and Techniques for Brain Injury Rehabilitation. Texas: ProEd Inc.
Lincoln, N., M. Majid, and N. Weyman. 2000. Cognitive Rehabilitation for Attention Deficits Following Stroke. In Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, ed. N. Lincoln. Chichester, UK: Wiley.
Rohling, M.L., M.E. Faust, B. Beverly, and G. Demakis. 2009. Effectiveness of Cognitive Rehabilitation Following Acquired Brain Injury: A Meta-Analytic Re-Examination of Cicerone et al.’s (2000, 2005) Systematic Reviews. Neuropsychology 23 (1): 20–39. doi:10.1037/a0013659.
Tárraga, L., M. Boada, G. Modinos, A. Espinosa, S. Diego, A. Morera, M. Guitart, J. Balcells, O.L. López, and J.T. Becker. 2006. A Randomised Pilot Study to Assess the Efficacy of an Interactive, Multimedia Tool of Cognitive Stimulation in Alzheimer’s Disease. Journal of Neurology Neurosurgery and Psychiatry 77 (10): 1116–1121. doi:10.1136/jnnp.2005.086074.
Acknowledgements
Special acknowledgments are given to late Professor G.W. Humphreys who gave motive, shared comments and inspired this case study. Nevertheless, potential omissions or ambiguities are on author’s liability and should not tarnish the reputation of this esteemed person.
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Corresponding author
Editor information
Editors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 2017 Springer International Publishing AG
About this paper
Cite this paper
Stratakou, G.D., Plerou, A. (2017). Cognitive Enhancement for Elderly Facing Dementia with the Use of Cognitive Rehabilitation Therapy Techniques and Psychological Treatment. A Case Study. In: Vlamos, P. (eds) GeNeDis 2016. Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology, vol 987. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-57379-3_9
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-57379-3_9
Published:
Publisher Name: Springer, Cham
Print ISBN: 978-3-319-57378-6
Online ISBN: 978-3-319-57379-3
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life SciencesBiomedical and Life Sciences (R0)