title: Using validation techniques to improve communication with cognitively impaired older adults.
abstract: 1. Nurses working with confused older adults in clinical settings need improved communication techniques. 2. Reality orientation is commonly used in nursing homes with disoriented persons; experienced nurses, however, often find it meets with withdrawal, vegetation or increasing hostility. 3. Validation strategies are communication techniques which are specifically matched to a particular stage of confusion. 4. When validation techniques are appropriately matched to confusional stage the effectiveness of the intervention can be significantly improved.
authors.forename: J I
authors.initials: JI
authors.lastname: Fine
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Rouse-Bane
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D003072:Cognition Disorders / Q000451:nursing* / Q000523:psychology; D003142:Communication; D005851:Geriatric Nursing / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans