Alzheimer Talk, Text and Context: Enhancing Communication

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