title: Collaboration, trouble and repair in multiparty interactions involving couples with dementia or aphasia.
abstract: The aim of the present study was to identify problems with communication with persons with aphasia and persons with dementia in a collaborative interview setting with their significant others. In particular, to compare interactional practices used in order to resolve problems caused by specific symptoms.
  
  
  
  Five persons with aphasia and five persons with dementia and their spouses participated in the study. Interviews were carried out couple by couple, and the interviews had a task-oriented character. The interviews were video and audio recorded. All interviews were transcribed. From the transcriptions categorisations according to previous literature were made.
  
  
  
  The results demonstrated that repair sequences were frequent in interaction involving people with aphasia (PWA), and even more so in interaction involving persons with dementia (PWD). In general, it was the PWA/PWD that initiated the repair sequence more often than the spouse, thus keeping the general rule of a preference for self-initiated repair compared to other-initiated repair.
  
  
  
  The active involvement of the conversational partners in trouble solving sequences in interaction with PWA/PWD demonstrated in the present study indicates that the interactional style of the conversational partner to PWA/PWD important. This implies that conversation partner training programmes would be useful both for PWA and for PWD.
authors.affiliation: a Division of Speech and Language Pathology, Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine , Linköping University , Linköping , Sweden and.
authors.forename: Christina
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Samuelsson
authors.affiliation: b Center for Dementia Research, Department of Social Welfare Studies , Linköping University , Linköping , Sweden.
authors.forename: Lars-Christer
authors.initials: LC
authors.lastname: HydéN
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D001037:Aphasia / Q000150:complications*; D003147:Communication Disorders / Q000209:etiology; D003704:Dementia / Q000150:complications*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged
keywords: Trouble indicating behaviour; aphasia; collaboration; dementia; repair