title: The couples life story approach: a dyadic intervention for dementia.
abstract: This article describes an approach for working with individuals who have dementia, along with their spouses or partners. The 5-week intervention focuses on helping couples communicate, reminisce about the story of their relationship, find photographs and mementoes from their past, and develop a book that incorporates these mementoes. This clinical approach highlights the strengths and the resilience of couples and adds to the limited repertoire of dyadic interventions for dementia care which are currently available. Preliminary findings from 24 couples are presented, including the intervention's feasibility and acceptability.
authors.affiliation: School of Social Work, The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA. bid@umich.edu
authors.forename: Berit
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Ingersoll-Dayton
authors.forename: Beth
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Spencer
authors.forename: Minyoung
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Kwak
authors.forename: Kristin
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Scherrer
authors.forename: Rebecca S
authors.initials: RS
authors.lastname: Allen
authors.forename: Ruth
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Campbell
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D017028:Caregivers / Q000523:psychology; D003704:Dementia / Q000523:psychology* / Q000628:therapy; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D008297:Male; D008393:Marriage / Q000523:psychology*; D010166:Palliative Care; D063545:Personal Narratives as Topic; D055500:Resilience, Psychological
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