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Cognitive Enhancement for Elderly Facing Dementia with the Use of Cognitive Rehabilitation Therapy Techniques and Psychological Treatment. A Case Study

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GeNeDis 2016

Part of the book series: Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology ((AEMB,volume 987))

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.

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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.

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  1. University of Birmingham, Sparta, Greece

    Georgia Dim Stratakou M.Res

  2. Department of Informatics, Bioinformatics and Human Electrophysiology Laboratory, Ionian University, Corfu, Greece

    Antonia Plerou Ph.D

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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

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