title: [Faces get names--cognitive training for psychogeriatric patients for remembering names and faces].
abstract: By systematic training, 14 psychogeriatric patients (aged 70 to 95 years and admitted to day care because of dementia) were taught the first names of 8 members of staff of the day care center. Treatment duration was one month, twice weekly. The therapist introduced the names by a step-by-step approach, beginning with two name-face combinations, and adding one new name (and photograph of that person's face) every next training session. Treatment consisted of a combination of several cognitive strategies: organisation and directed attention, rehearsal, first letter cueing and vanishing cue techniques, and paired-associate learning based on rhymes, pictures and visual imagery. Patients were assigned at random to a treatment and a control group (waiting list condition). Patients in the control group received their training after the waiting period of one month. Using this pretest-posttest-control-group design, we were able to objectively evaluate treatment effects. Treatment caused a significant enhancement of knowledge of staff members names. Gains achieved using this program persisted over at least one month, as could be demonstrated by a follow-up evaluation.
authors.affiliation: Psychogeriatrische Dienst, Stichting Verpleeghuizen Nederland, Laren.
authors.forename: H F
authors.initials: HF
authors.lastname: Diesfeldt
authors.forename: J C
authors.initials: JC
authors.lastname: Smits
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D001245:Association Learning; D003463:Cues; D005260:Female; D015577:Geriatric Assessment; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008569:Memory Disorders / Q000517:prevention & control*; D010353:Patient Education as Topic / Q000379:methods*
vernacular_title: Gezichten krijgen namen--een cognitieve training voor psychogeriatrische patiënten voor het onthouden van namen en gezichten.