Background There has been increasing interest in dementia care in recent years, including
how practitioners, service providers and society in general can help individuals to live well …

Background: Nursing staff are the most frequent communication partners, after family
members, for people in hospital poststroke, and they play an essential role in the …

The Routledge Handbook of Language and Health Communication consists of forty
chapters that provide a broad, comprehensive, and systematic overview of the role that …

Purpose: This study investigated the communicative benefits of self-repair during
conversation for persons with aphasia (PWAs). Self-repair of trouble sources is an …

Social isolation is a key concern for individuals with dementia in long-term care. A possible
solution is to promote social interaction between residents. A first step toward facilitating …

The informativeness of written language, as measured by Propositional Idea Density (PD),
has been shown to be a sensitive predictive index of language decline with age and …

Demenzen schränken neben den Gedächtnisleistungen und der Orientierungsfähigkeit
auch die verbale und nonverbale Kommunikationsfähigkeit ganz erheblich ein …

Background: Facilitated group conversation is a feature of many programs designed to help
persons with aphasia (PWA) recover from neurogenic injuries. While researchers have …

Pragmatic disruption is associated with a range of acquired communication disorders of both
neurogenic and psychiatric origin. This chapter provides an overview of the main themes in …

The present article focuses on feedback in storytelling involving people with Alzheimer's
disease (AD), and how feedback is related to the ways participants establish a common …