How to improve social communication in aging: Pragmatic and cognitive interventions

Bambini, Valentina; Tonini, Elisabetta; Ceccato, Irene; Lecce, Serena; Marocchini, Eleonora; Cavallini, Elena

doi:10.1016/j.bandl.2020.104864

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“…In this sense, our results indicate significant differences in attitude toward information between people with high compliance and moderate compliance with rules. In line with the literature (Briscese et al, 2020;Fridman, Lucas, Henke, & Zigler, 2020;Bambini et al, 2020 ), our findings highlight the importance of implementing an effective public health communication campaign together with monitoring attitudes in the population to prevent potential disengagement effects. In planning practices for managing health crisis, policy makers should consider findings from both current and past pandemics.…”

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Age-related differences in the perception of COVID-19 emergency during the Italian outbreak

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Aging & Mental Health

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Age-related differences in the perception of COVID-19 emergency during the Italian outbreak

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“…After a first thorough neuropsychological assessment (described in section 2.2), the patient showed no relevant impairment, except for a slight pragmatic deficit; for this reason, she took part to a rehabilitation program targeting pragmatic abilities (PRAGMACOM; described in the Appendix; Bambini et al, 2020c). Before discharge from the hospital, PM suffered a sudden worsening of the clinical conditions characterized by fatigue, marked generalized asthenia, nausea, psychomotor slowing, and optic neuritis (inflammation of the optic nerve involving pain, vision loss in one eye, visual field loss and loss of color vision).…”

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Case report: Pragmatic impairment in Multiple Sclerosis after worsening of clinical symptoms

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Pragmatics is the ability to integrate language in context and to communicateeffectively. This skill is essential in many aspects of communication in daily life, both incomprehension and in production, to understand the speaker’s intended meaning andto convey a message adequately. Recent studies showed that pragmatics may beimpaired in Multiple Sclerosis (MS), with a possible impact on quality of life. Here wepresent the case of a patient with secondary progressive MS who, upon admission tothe hospital for physical rehabilitation, showed almost no impairment inneuropsychological assessment, except for a subtle pragmatic impairment as revealedthrough the Assessment of Pragmatic Abilities and Cognitive Substrates (APACS test).During hospitalization, the patient suffered a sudden worsening of MS-relatedsymptoms. In the neuropsychological assessment after the clinical worsening, the patient showed a remarkably stable cognitive profile (except for tests influenced bypsychomotor speed), but a marked worsening in pragmatic test scores, especiallythose requiring extensive verbal production. Starting from the dissociation betweencognitive and pragmatic aspects, we conclude that pragmatics may be particularlysusceptible to clinical worsening in MS and discuss the importance of consideringcommunicative skills in MS.

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“…Importantly, many of these regions harbour brain atrophy from early in the PPA disease course, suggesting that social communication would be deleteriously affected in these disorders. Despite some evidence of decline in pragmatics in healthy aging [ 28 ] and mild cognitive impairment (MCI; [ 29 ]), it remains unclear how social communication is affected in PPA or neurodegenerative disorders more broadly.…”

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Cognitive and Neural Mechanisms of Social Communication Dysfunction in Primary Progressive Aphasia

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Mounting evidence suggests that, in parallel with well-defined changes in language, primary progressive aphasia (PPA) syndromes display co-occurring social cognitive impairments. Here, we explored multidimensional profiles of carer-rated social communication using the La Trobe Communication Questionnaire (LCQ) in 11 semantic dementia (SD), 12 logopenic progressive aphasia (LPA) and 9 progressive non-fluent aphasia (PNFA) cases and contrasted their performance with 19 Alzheimer’s disease (AD) cases, 26 behavioural variant frontotemporal dementia (bvFTD) cases and 31 healthy older controls. Relative to the controls, the majority of patient groups displayed significant overall social communication difficulties, with common and unique profiles of impairment evident on the LCQ subscales. Correlation analyses revealed a differential impact of social communication disturbances on functional outcomes in patient and carer well-being, most pronounced for SD and bvFTD. Finally, voxel-based morphometry analyses based on a structural brain MRI pointed to the degradation of a distributed brain network in mediating social communication dysfunction in dementia. Our findings suggest that social communication difficulties are an important feature of PPA, with significant implications for patient function and carer well-being. The origins of these changes are likely to be multifactorial, reflecting the breakdown of fronto-thalamic brain circuits specialised in the integration of complex information.

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How to improve social communication in aging: Pragmatic and cognitive interventions

Cited by 29 publications

References 72 publications

Age-related differences in the perception of COVID-19 emergency during the Italian outbreak

Age-related differences in the perception of COVID-19 emergency during the Italian outbreak

Case report: Pragmatic impairment in Multiple Sclerosis after worsening of clinical symptoms

Cognitive and Neural Mechanisms of Social Communication Dysfunction in Primary Progressive Aphasia

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