The Breakfast Club: Results of a study examining the effectiveness of a multi-modality group communication treatment

Author:

Pietro Mary Jo Santo1,Boczko Faerella2

Affiliation:

1. Kean University, Department of Special Education, Union, New Jersey

2. The Jewish Home and Hospital, Bronx, New York

Abstract

Twenty mid-stage Alzheimer's patients at the Jewish Home and Hospital in the Bronx participatedfor 12 weeks each in four groups offive in a five-day-a-week program of structured multi-modality group communication intervention called “The Breakfast Club.” Twenty matched patients participated in a standard conversation group and served as controls. The Breakfast Club attempted to incorporate all that was currently known about the residual communication strengths of Alzheimer's patients and about previous treatments shown to be effective with this population. Results showed that Breakfast Club participants improved significantly on measures of language performance, functional independence and use of social communication while control subjects did not. Breakfast Club members also showed significant increases in “interest and involvement” and the use of procedural memories over the 12-week period.

Publisher

SAGE Publications

Subject

Geriatrics and Gerontology,Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology

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