A method to re-teach people with dementia personal information
Research type
Research Study
Full title
Using errorless methods to re-teach personal information to people with dementia
IRAS ID
208968
Contact name
Rebecca Sharp
Contact email
Sponsor organisation
Bangor University
Duration of Study in the UK
0 years, 6 months, 1 days
Research summary
We seek to evaluate a method for re-teaching people with dementia personal information so that they can partake in social interactions more easily. Errorless learning involves the elimination of errors during the learning process by breaking down the target responses into small steps, providing the correct answers immediately, and the systematic fading of prompts. Such methods may facilitate faster acquisition, and avoid guessing or distress when the person cannot recall the answer. There is currently little literature evaluating the use of errorless discrete trial training methods with people with dementia and we aim to evaluate the utility of this method.
REC name
Wales REC 5
REC reference
16/WA/0189
Date of REC Opinion
19 Jun 2016
REC opinion
Unfavourable Opinion