title: "They're just going to get worse anyway": perspectives on rehabilitation for nursing home residents with dementia.
abstract: In recent years, researchers have provided data to show that individuals with Alzheimer's disease (AD) can learn new information and functional behaviors, despite significant declarative memory deficits. However, clinicians in long-term care frequently have difficulty justifying and providing needed services to persons with Alzheimer's disease in LTC settings. In this paper, implicit learning will be discussed as a theoretical rationale to support rehabilitation along with practical issues related to the provision of speech-language pathology services for residents with Alzheimer's disease in LTC settings.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  After reading this article, learners will be able to: (1) Define implicit learning; (2) discuss evidence for implicit learning in Alzheimer's disease; (3) describe how to capitalize on implicit learning during rehabilitation for individuals with Alzheimer's disease; (4) explain how to justify and provide interventions for individuals with Alzheimer's disease in LTC settings.
authors.affiliation: Department of Speech Pathology and Audiology, Faculty of Rehabilitation Medicine, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alta., Canada T6G 2G4. tammy.hopper@ualberta.ca
authors.forename: Tammy L
authors.initials: TL
authors.lastname: Hopper
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000544:Alzheimer Disease / Q000523:psychology / Q000628:therapy*; D003704:Dementia / Q000523:psychology / Q000628:therapy*; D006707:Homes for the Aged; D006801:Humans; D007808:Language Therapy; D007858:Learning; D008568:Memory; D009735:Nursing Homes; D013070:Speech Therapy