Communicating with Older Adults

Question 1

strategies for oral assessments with cognitively impaired individuals

Answer 1

develop rapport
provide quiet environment
reduce number of people
use visual cues
allow to rest

Question 2

wholistic communication requires

Answer 2

awareness of both external contexts and person beliefs, values, attitudes

Question 3

elderspeak

Answer 3

inappropriate, simplified speech used with older adults
decreases comprehension and increase miscommunication

Question 4

diminuitives

Answer 4

inappropriately intimate terms
imply parent-child relationship

Question 5

inappropriate plural pronouns

Answer 5

using collective pronouns such as “we” when referring to an independent older adult

Question 6

tag questions

Answer 6

prompts the answer to the question
implies the older adult cannot act alone

Question 7

shortened sentences, slow speech, simple vocab

Answer 7

sounds like baby talk
singsong voice, changing pitch and tone

Question 8

aim of communication

Answer 8

information relay
building rapport
building relationships

Question 9

physical 5

Answer 9

hungry
soiled
overstimulated
pain
thirsty

Question 10

red traffic light

Answer 10

feelings

Question 11

yellow traffic light

Answer 11

thinking

Question 12

green traffic light

Answer 12

actions

Question 13

traffic lights and dementia

Answer 13

yellow light (thinking) is faulty or not working at all