ArticleDementia and geriatric cognitive disorders2020
Pronoun Use during Patient-Caregiver Interactions: Associations with Caregiver Well-Being.
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- Oxytocin reduces anger bias, harm-intention recognition, and self-focus in behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia: a randomized double-blind placebo-controlled crossover trial.Frontiers in aging neuroscience · 2026Article
- Associations between dementia symptoms and caregiver and relationship health: A prominent role for speech and language.Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD · 2025Article
- Interpersonal linkage in positive and negative emotional behaviors, emotional well-being, and physical functioning in dementia caregivers.Clinical psychological science : a journal of the Association for Psychological Science · 2024Article
- "Out of the clear blue sky she tells me she loves me": Connection experiences between caregivers and people with dementia.Journal of the American Geriatrics Society · 2023Article
- Links of we-talk to caregiver social network systems and health.Journal of family psychology : JFP : journal of the Division of Family Psychology of the American Psychological Association (Division 43) · 2022Article
- Lower activity linkage between caregivers and persons with neurodegenerative diseases is associated with greater caregiver anxiety.Psychophysiology · 2022Article
- Pronoun Use among Caregivers of People Living with Dementia: Associations with Dementia Severity Using Text Analysis of a Natural Language Sample.Dementia and geriatric cognitive disorders extraArticle
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Abstract
introductionCaring for a spouse with dementia can be extremely challenging. Many caregivers experience profound declines in well-being; however, others remain healthy.
objectiveThis study determined whether the personal pronouns used in interactions between persons with dementia (PWDs) and their spousal caregivers were associated with caregiver well-being.
methodsFifty-eight PWDs and their spousal caregivers engaged in a 10-min conversation about an area of disagreement in a laboratory setting. Verbatim transcripts of the conversation were coded using text analysis software, and caregivers and PWDs each received scores for (a) I-pronouns, (b) you-pronouns, and (c) we-pronouns. Caregivers' well-being was assessed using a composite measure of depression, anxiety, burden, and strain.
resultsResults revealed that less use of we-pronouns by caregivers and PWDs and greater use of I-pronouns by PWDs were -associated with lower caregiver well-being.
conclusionsThese findings indicate that less use of pronouns that refer to the couple (we-pronouns used by either partner) and greater use of pronouns that refer to the PWD (I-pronouns used by the PWD) are indicative of caregivers at heightened risk for lower well-being.
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