Communication Wellness Check‐Up<sup>©</sup>: Age‐related changes in communicative abilities

Harris, Joyce L.; Kıran, Swathi; Marquardt, Thomas P.; Fleming, Valarie B.

doi:10.1080/02687030701818034

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“…Expressive discourse ability was found to be impaired in individuals with MCI when compared to healthy counterparts in six studies, 28, 36, 40, 43, 45, 46 while one study found no difference between the two groups. 18 Four studies found that subjects with MCI performed better on story recall tasks than did those with AD.…”

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“…Discourse, also called connected language, can be thought of as a, “window into the flow or misflow of information that may occur … as the speaker translates his or her thoughts into language”. 43 Measurements of expressive discourse in this review included picture description, 18 verbal descriptions of an imaginary trip, 36, 40 and story recall and inferencing. 28, 43–45 Of note, although story recall is often conceptualized as a measure of episodic memory ability, it was considered as a measure of discourse in this review, as story recall and inferencing appear to mirror the cognitive demands of daily discourse, including conversation, and are influenced by a person’s language abilities.…”

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Communication Difficulty and Relevant Interventions in Mild Cognitive Impairment

Johnson

Lin

2014

Topics in Geriatric Rehabilitation

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Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI) represents a critical point for controlling cognitive decline. Patterns of communication difficulty have been observed in patients with MCI and warrant examination and management. The present systematic review examined (1) characteristics of communication difficulty in MCI by focusing on two domains: expressive and receptive communication, and (2) cognitive interventions that addressed communication difficulties in individuals with MCI. Of the 28 observational studies we reviewed, expressive and receptive communications were generally impaired in individuals with MCI, compared to their healthy counterparts. However, only one of seven interventions effectively improved communication related outcomes. We finished the paper with a discussion about how neuroplasticity influences communication abilities in individuals with MCI to inform the future development of interventions for communication difficulty.

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Communication Difficulty and Relevant Interventions in Mild Cognitive Impairment

Johnson

Lin

2014

Topics in Geriatric Rehabilitation

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“…Dijkstra et al [41] compared the discourse features of typically ageing adults and adults with dementia, and found that the dementia patients’ discourse presented more topic shifts and empty phrases than the healthy ageing participants, whose discourse was more coherent and cohesive. Harris et al [42] have found in a discourse production task that MCI patients produced the least amount of thematic information (i.e., information about a certain theme) in a comparison between groups which included younger adults, typically ageing adults and people with neurological damage. Investigations of discourse length, complexity and quality have established that healthy older adults used more words than those with MCI.…”

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Language in Amnestic Mild Cognitive Impairment and Dementia of Alzheimer’s Type: Quantitatively or Qualitatively Different?

Jokel¹,

Lima²,

Fernandez³

et al. 2019

Dement Geriatr Cogn Disord Extra

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Background/Aims: The purpose of this study was to explore language differences between individuals diagnosed with amnestic mild cognitive impairment multiple domain (aMCIm) and those with probable Alzheimer’s disease, with a goal of (i) characterizing the language profile of aMCIm and (ii) determining whether the profiles of dementia of Alzheimer’s type (DAT) and aMCIm individuals are on a continuum of one diagnostic entity or represent two distinct cognitive disorders. Methods: Language data from 28 patients with consensus diagnosis of aMCIm and DAT derived from a retrospective chart review were compared to that of healthy controls. Results: A non-parametric statistic established that there was no significant difference between groups in age, years of education or duration of symptoms and that expressive language was found to be relatively intact in both patient groups. In contrast, both groups exhibited significant impairments on receptive language tests and on linguistically complex tasks that rely on episodic memory and executive functions. Individuals with aMCIm and DAT present with configurations of language features that are largely in parallel to each other and reflect predominantly quantitative differences. Conclusion: Language tests provide an important contribution to the diagnostic process in their capacity to identify language impairments at an early stage. Understanding the nature of language decline is critically important to the intervention process as this information would inform cognitive intervention approaches aimed at promoting quality of life in people living with MCI and dementia.

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“…In the literature significant correlations were found between productivity and age (e.g., Harris et al . ), efficiency and age (e.g., Capilouto et al . ), grammatical organization and age (e.g., Ulatowska et al .…”

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Oral and written picture description in individuals with aphasia

Vandenborre

Visch-Brink²,

Dun

et al. 2017

Intl J Lang & Comm Disor

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The analysis of both modalities (speech and writing) at the discourse level allows one to assess simultaneously micro- and macro-linguistic skills and their potential interrelations in a given IWA. Connected writing appears to be more sensitive in discriminating IWA from healthy controls than connected speech. This method for analyzing language samples should, however, be used in conjunction with other assessment tools.

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Communication Wellness Check‐Up^©: Age‐related changes in communicative abilities

Cited by 21 publications

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Communication Difficulty and Relevant Interventions in Mild Cognitive Impairment

Communication Difficulty and Relevant Interventions in Mild Cognitive Impairment

Language in Amnestic Mild Cognitive Impairment and Dementia of Alzheimer’s Type: Quantitatively or Qualitatively Different?

Oral and written picture description in individuals with aphasia

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Communication Difficulty and Relevant Interventions in Mild Cognitive Impairment

Communication Difficulty and Relevant Interventions in Mild Cognitive Impairment

Language in Amnestic Mild Cognitive Impairment and Dementia of Alzheimer’s Type: Quantitatively or Qualitatively Different?

Oral and written picture description in individuals with aphasia

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