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November 22, 2005

TimeSlips: Group Storytelling Helps Nursing Home Residents with Alzheimer's

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TimeSlips is a simple and inexpensive group storytelling technique that allows nursing home residents with Alzheimer's disease and related dementia to express themselves without relying on failing memories and deteriorating language skills. It has been shown to successfully engage residents, improve their ability to communicate, and gives them an opportunity to have fun and laugh. The technique also appears to improve relationships between nursing home residents and their caregivers.

Posted by Gary Holden at November 22, 2005 12:32 PM