title: Cognitive rehabilitation therapies for Alzheimer's disease: a review of methods to improve treatment engagement and self-efficacy.
abstract: Cognitive rehabilitation therapies for Alzheimer's disease (AD) are becoming more readily available to the geriatric population in an attempt to curb the insidious decline in cognitive and functional performance. However, people with AD may have difficulty adhering to these cognitive treatments due to denial of memory deficits, compromised brain systems, cognitive incapacity for self-awareness, general difficulty following through on daily tasks, lack of motivation, hopelessness, and apathy, all of which may be either due to the illness or be secondary to depression. Cognitive rehabilitation training exercises are also labor intensive and, unfortunately, serve as a repeated reminder about the memory impairments and attendant functional consequences. In order for cognitive rehabilitation methods to be effective, patients must be adequately engaged and motivated to not only begin a rehabilitation program but also to remain involved in the intervention until a therapeutic dosage can be attained. We review approaches to cognitive rehabilitation in AD, neuropsychological as well as psychological obstacles to effective treatment in this population, and methods that target adherence to treatment and may therefore be applicable to cognitive rehabilitation therapies for AD. The goal is to stimulate discussion among researchers and clinicians alike on how treatment effects may be mediated by engagement in treatment, and what can be done to enhance patient adherence for cognitive rehabilitation therapies in order to obtain greater cognitive and functional benefits from the treatment itself.
authors: Mental Health Services & Policy Research, Columbia University Medical Center, 1051 Riverside Dr, Mailbox 100, New York, NY 10032, USA. jc3110@columbia.edu
authors: Jimmy
authors: J
authors: Choi
authors: Elizabeth W
authors: EW
authors: Twamley
mesh_terms: D000203:Activities of Daily Living / Q000523:psychology; D000544:Alzheimer Disease / Q000523:psychology / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D057565:Apathy; D006801:Humans; D009042:Motivation; D009483:Neuropsychological Tests; D020377:Self Efficacy
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