Lynn Malcolm
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first heard Feb 2006
last heard Dec 2020
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We've just heard that the quality of our sleep, especially in middle age, may play a role in the development of many forms of dementia and in turn impact the well-being of those with the condition.
Well new research is now revealing more about the inner experience of someone with a particular form of dementia called frontotemporal
Marin Irish is Associate Professor of Psychology and a cognitive neuroscientist at the Brain and Mind Centre at the University of Sydney.
After a decade of working with patients with frontotemporal dementia, Marin Irish recognizes that in order to improve the well being of dementia patients and
We need to gain further knowledge of their lived experience.
It's often assumed that these patients are lost in their own world of mind wandering or daydreaming.
So Murray and Irish decided to investigate.
But first, why is the ability to daydream important?
Finding out whether people with frontotemporal dementia are able to daydream presented a real challenge for Marin Irish and her colleagues.
How do you measure something as complex and introspective as daydreaming?
They had to design a new task.
What
have a real dearth of richness in their experience and in their thoughts.
have a better understanding of what their inner experience is.
What are the implications for the way
some forms of dementia are don't show this, don't show the the inability to daydream.
And it all points to the need for highly personalized care in institutions, doesn't it?
Maren Arish, Associate Professor of Psychology at the Brain and Mind Centre at the University of Sydney.
Dennis Frost, who we heard from earlier, says that meeting others with dementia has helped him live a more positive life.
Here are the messages he'd like to share.
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