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The Online Life Story Book: A randomized controlled trial on the effects of a digital reminiscence intervention for people with
This paper describes a randomized controlled trial on the Online Life Story Book (OLSB), a digital reminiscence intervention for people with (very) mild dementia living at home. The aim of the study was to investigate the effectiveness of the OLSB on (i) neuropsychiatric symptoms (NPS) in persons with dementia and (ii) the distress and quality of life (QOL) of primary informal caregivers. A randomized controlled trial with individual randomization to one of two conditions was conducted: 1) intervention \"Online Life Story Book\"; 2) wait list control condition. In the intervention OLSB, a trained volunteer guided the participants through the process of creating an OLSB in approximately 5 meetings within a period of 8-10 weeks. Participants in the control condition received care as usual while they waited for 6 months before starting. Outcomes on NPS and distress and QOL of the informal caregiver were assessed at baseline (baseline, T0), 3 months (T1) and 6 months (T2) post baseline. Of the 42 persons with dementia, 23 were female and 19 were male. They had a mean age of 80 years, ranging from 49 to 95. The total drop-out rate was 14.3 percent. Small but insignificant effects on NPS, caregiver distress and QOL of caregivers were found with the exception of self-rated caregiver distress that reduced significantly during the intervention. One reason to explain the results might be that the included participants were in relatively good health. Practical challenges during the intervention could have affected the results as well. It might also be that the intervention caused effects on other outcomes than NPS and caregiver distress. In future research, it is important to study the effects in persons with more complaints and higher distress and to be careful in the selection of outcome variables in relation to the reminiscence functions served by the intervention.
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My mother's tears
\"With subtle, bemused humor and an unerring eye for human frailty, Michel Layaz writes about the hidden tensions within families, the awkwardness of adolescence, and the drama of intimacy between friends and lovers. The adult narrator has returned to clean out his childhood home after his mother's death. In thirty short chapters, each focused on a talismanic object or resonant episode from his childhood, the narrator tries to solve the mystery behind the flood of tears with which his strikingly beautiful, intelligent, and inscrutable mother greeted his birth. Like insects preserved in amber, these objects an artificial orchid, a statue, a pair of green pumps, a steak knife, a fishing rod and reel, among others are surrounded by an aura that permeates the narrator's life. Interspersed with these chapters are fragments from the narrator's conversation with his present lover, a woman who demands that he verbally confront his past. This difficult conversation charts his gradual liberation from the psychological wounds he suffered growing up. Not only an account of a son's attempt to understand his enigmatic mother, but also a moving novel about language and memory that explores the ambivalent power of words to hurt and to heal, to revive the past and to put childhood demons to rest.\"--Publisher.
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Reminiscing and Autobiographical Memory in ASD: Mother–Child Conversations About Emotional Events and How Preschool-Aged Children Recall the Past
Autobiographical memory (AM) is a socially-relevant cognitive skill. Little is known regarding AM during early childhood in ASD. Parent–child reminiscing conversations predict AM in non-ASD populations but have rarely been examined in autism. To address this gap, 17 preschool-aged children (ages 4–6 years) with ASD and 21 children without ASD matched on age, sex, and expressive language completed assessments of AM, executive functioning, self-related variables, and a parent–child reminiscing task. Children with ASD had less specific AM, which related to theory of mind, self-concept, and working memory. AM specificity also related to child observed autism traits. Mothers of children with ASD made more closed-ended and off-topic utterances during reminiscing, although only maternal open-ended elaborations predicted better AM in ASD.
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The Ice Cream Queen of Orchard Street : a novel
Lillian's rise to fame and fortune spans seventy years and is inextricably linked to the course of American history itself, from Prohibition to the disco days of Studio 54. Yet Lillian Dunkle is nothing like the whimsical motherly persona she crafts for herself in the media. Conniving, profane, and irreverent, she is a supremely complex woman who prefers a good stiff drink to an ice cream cone. And when her past begins to catch up with her, everything she has spent her life building is at stake.
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Preventing child welfare reinvolvement: The efficacy of the Reminiscing and Emotion Training intervention
Child maltreatment is a pathogenic relational experience that creates risk for physical and psychological health difficulties throughout the lifespan. The Reminiscing and Emotion Training intervention (RET) was developed to support maltreated children’s healthy development by improving parenting behavior among maltreating mothers. Here, we evaluated whether RET was associated with reductions in child welfare reinvolvement over the course of two years. The sample included 165 maltreating and 83 nonmaltreating mothers and their 3- to 6-year-old children who were enrolled in a longitudinal randomized controlled trial of RET. Maltreating mother–child dyads were randomly assigned to receive RET or an active control condition (community standard [CS]). Nonmaltreating dyads were a separate control group (nonmaltreating control). Comparing CS and RET dyads, there was a significant effect of RET on frequency of child welfare reinvolvement (substantiations and unsubstantiated assessments) during the two years following dyads’ enrollment in the intervention,
t
(163) = 2.02,
p
< .05, Cohen’s
d
= 0.32. There was a significant indirect effect of RET on child welfare reinvolvement through maternal sensitive guidance during reminiscing [95% CI −0.093, −0.007]. Results provide support for the efficacy of RET in preventing child welfare reinvolvement.
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The celebrants : a novel
\"It's been a minute--or five years--since Jordan Vargas last saw his college friends, and twenty-eight years since their graduation when their adult lives officially began. Now Jordan, Jordy, Naomi, Craig, and Marielle find themselves at the brink of a new decade, with all the responsibilities of adulthood, yet no closer to having their lives figured out. Though not for a lack of trying. Over the years they've reunited in Big Sur to honor a decades-old pact to throw each other living \"funerals,\" celebrations to remind themselves that life is worth living--that their lives mean something, to one another, if not to themselves. But this reunion is different. They're not gathered as they were to bolster Marielle as her marriage crumbled, to lift Naomi after her parents died, or to intervene when Craig pleaded guilty to art fraud. This time, Jordan is sitting on a secret that will upend their pact. A deeply honest tribute to the growing pains of selfhood and the people who keep us going, coupled with Steven Rowley's signature humor and heart, The Celebrants is a moving tale about the false invincibility of youth and the beautiful ways in which friendship helps us celebrate our lives, even amid the deepest challenges of living\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Effectiveness of reminiscence therapy on multiple health outcomes for older adults: an umbrella review
Background
Many systematic reviews and meta-analyses have reported the effect of reminiscence therapy (RT) on older adults. However, results highlight inconsistent outcomes. Our aims of this study are to summarize the evidence and evaluate the effectiveness of reminiscence therapy (RT) in older adults by using an umbrella review methodology.
Methods
An umbrella review of systematic reviews and meta-analyses including randomized controlled trials (RCTs) investigating the effects of reminiscence therapy (RT) on older adults. Ten databases including PubMed, the Cochrane Library, Embase, Web of Science, CINAHL, APA PsycNet, CNKI, VIP, SinoMed, and Wanfang Database were searched to identify articles in English or Chinese from inception to November 9, 2023. Two authors of this review independently selected the studies, assessed their quality and extracted the data from the included studies. A quality assessment of eligible reviews was conducted using the AMSTAR 2.0 tool, PRISMA, and GRADE tool. Estimated 95% prediction intervals and heterogeneity were also calculated.
Results
A total of 21 systematic reviews and meta-analyses were included in this umbrella review, examining the effects of RT in older adults. Collectively, these reviews encompassed 246 RCTs involving a total of 18,177 participants and evaluated 12 outcomes, which were classified into 4 domains (emotional outcomes: depression, anxiety, loneliness, apathy and self-esteem; cognitive outcomes: cognitive function; behavioral outcomes: agitation behavior, functional behavior, communication and interaction; overall well-being: quality of life, life satisfaction and well-being). The overall methodological quality of the included reviews was rated as critically low according to the AMSTAR-2.
Conclusions
While the existing evidence suggests that RT may have potential benefits in enhancing self-esteem, communication and interaction, functional activities, and reducing loneliness, these findings should be interpreted with caution given that most included reviews were rated as critically low quality. Current evidence does not support the effectiveness of RT in improving well-being, agitation behaviors, or apathy, and mixed results were observed for other outcomes. To draw more definitive conclusions regarding the efficacy of RT, future research should employ rigorous methodological designs, involve larger and more diverse samples, and ensure longer follow-up periods.
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