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ArticleJournal of applied gerontology : the official journal of the Southern Gerontological Society2024

"Just Join Them": Improv and Dementia Care.

Candace L Kemp, Jennifer Craft Morgan, Alexis A Bender, Andrea M Hill, Emerald Anglin, Elisabeth O Burgess, Fayron Epps, Molly M Perkins

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Article in Journal of applied gerontology : the official journal of the Southern Gerontological Society, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

8 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Definitions of Person-Centeredness for Persons With Dementia in the United States: A Scoping Review.Journal of applied gerontology : the official journal of the Southern Gerontological Society · 2026
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  3. Communicating with Patients with Major Neurocognitive Disorder: An Improv Based Curriculum for Psychiatry Residents.Academic psychiatry : the journal of the American Association of Directors of Psychiatric Residency Training and the Association for Academic Psychiatry · 2025
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  4. Examining Engagement Calendar Deviations in Assisted Living: A Focus on Residents With Dementia.Journal of applied gerontology : the official journal of the Southern Gerontological Society · 2025
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  7. Improv as cognitive activity.Frontiers in aging neuroscience · 2025
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  8. Bioethics in Gerontology: Developing a Typology of Ethical Issues in Assisted Living.Journal of applied gerontology : the official journal of the Southern Gerontological Society · 2024
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors.

Candace L KempThe Gerontology Institute, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-4232-4313
Jennifer Craft MorganThe Gerontology Institute, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-5647-9183
Alexis A BenderDivision of Geriatrics & Gerontology, Department of Medicine, Emory School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-7900-923X
Andrea M HillThe Gerontology Institute, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA, USA.
Emerald AnglinThe Gerontology Institute, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA, USA.ORCID 0009-0007-9225-2334
Elisabeth O BurgessThe Gerontology Institute, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA, USA.
Fayron EppsNell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-4332-4078
Molly M PerkinsDivision of Geriatrics & Gerontology, Department of Medicine, Emory School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-5993-8712

Funding

Roybal Translational Research Center to Promote Context-Specific Caregiving of Community-Dwelling Persons Living with Alzheimer's Disease or Related DisordersP30AG064200 · NIA · EMORY UNIVERSITY · PI Fayron Recha Epps · 2019 to 2026
$8.6M
Meaningful Engagement and Quality of Life among Assisted Living Residents with Dementia.R01AG062310 · NIA · GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY · PI KEMP, CANDACE LYNN · 2018 to 2022
$3.6M
Investigating Informal Caregivers' Involvement in End-of-Life Care among Assisted Living Residents with Advanced Dementia and its Influence on Resident and Caregiver OutcomesRF1AG069114 · NIA · EMORY UNIVERSITY · PI PERKINS, MOLLY M · 2021 to 2021
$2.2M
NIA NIH HHS P30 AG064200NIA NIH HHS R01 AG062310NIA NIH HHS RF1 AG069114
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Improvisational (improv) theatre skill development holds promise for improving the dementia capability of care partners. In this report, we present analysis of data from an ongoing study on meaningful engagement and quality of life among assisted living (AL) residents with dementia. Using ethnographic methods, we collected data from persons with dementia (

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DementiaCaregiversHumansPatient-Centered CareQualitative ResearchQuality of Lifecaregivingdementiaimprovisational theatre skillsperson-centered carequalitative methods

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PMID37933156
PMCPMC11267974

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