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Thursday, April 29, 2010

Talking Mats® help involve people with dementia and their carers in decisionmaking

Published April, 2010, this study from the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, this paper explores whether people with early and moderate stage dementia and their family carers can use Talking Mats together to help them feel more involved in decisions about managing their daily lives.

Talking Mats is a low-technology communication framework, developed at the University of Stirling, to help people with communication difficulties express their views. A simple system of picture symbols, placed on a textured mat, allows people to indicate their views about various options within a topic by placing the relevant image below a visual scale.

http://www.jrf.org.uk/publications/talking-mats-decision-making

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