Augumentative & Alternative Communication (AAC) based on the cognition of the eldrly with dementia and characteristics of family caregivers
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15K00214
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
Cognitive science
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| Research Institution | Kyoto Gakuen University |
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Principal Investigator |
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
岩田 まな 新潟リハビリテーション大学(大学院), 大学院高次脳機能障害コース, 客員教授 (70146273)
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| Research Collaborator |
SAITO Akie
OSAWA Aiko
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| Project Period (FY) |
2015-04-01 – 2019-03-31
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| Project Status |
Completed (Fiscal Year 2018)
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| Budget Amount *help |
¥4,680,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,080,000)
Fiscal Year 2018: ¥650,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥150,000)
Fiscal Year 2017: ¥1,170,000 (Direct Cost: ¥900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥270,000)
Fiscal Year 2016: ¥1,170,000 (Direct Cost: ¥900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥270,000)
Fiscal Year 2015: ¥1,690,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,300,000、Indirect Cost: ¥390,000)
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| Keywords | 認知症 / 拡大・代替コミュニケーション / AAC / 認知機能 / 家族介護者 / コミュニケーション / 認知特性 / 家族 / 拡大・代替コミュニケーション(AAC) / 高齢者 / 介護者 / 拡大・代替法 |
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
We studied how to alterate communication strategy to persuit well-being of communication in dementia and reduce burden of family caregivers of the elderly with dementia. We investigated how to integrate cognitive dysfunctions in dementia and characteristics of familiy caregivers to intervene communication between the elderly with dementia and their family caregivers.
We found a significant correlation between memory decline and discourse abilities, one of the indices of communicative abilites, in normal elderly. On the contrary, in dementia spontaneous word retrieval and discourse ablities were significantly correlated. Moreover, it was also elucidated that the burden of family caregivers were accumulated by discourse disablities. Communication is interactive, therefore it is important to intervene not only the elderly with dementia but family caregivers.
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| Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements |
認知症へのコミュニケーション介入では，認知機能の状態が違うにもかかわらず，同じ方法で介入を行い，認知機能の個別性に対応したコミュニケーション支援をしているとは言い難い現状がある。さらに，認知症の家族介護者の介護負担感に注目した研究は多いが，認知症の認知特性と家族介護者のコミュニケーション方法をまとめた報告は少ない。
本研究は，別々に取り扱われることが多かった認知特性研究と家族介護者研究を融合した点で学術的新規性がある。さらに，進行性の病態である認知症であっても，現状維持のみではなく，人としての豊かさを支援する方法がコミュニケーションの観点から可能であることを示した点が，社会的意義と考える。
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