Cargando…

Nostalgic conversations: The co-production of an intervention package for people living with dementia and their spouse

OBJECTIVES: Nostalgic memories are more social than other forms of autobiographical recall, often refer to atypical events, express more positive affect and reflect life as meaningful. Recalling a nostalgic (compared to ordinary) memory increases self-esteem, self-growth, meaning in life and social...

Descripción completa

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales: Dodd, Emily, Ismail, Sanda, Christopher, Gary, Wildschut, Tim, Sedikides, Constantine, Cheston, Richard
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: SAGE Publications 2021
Materias:
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8811318/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34625006
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/14713012211047350
_version_ 1784644406440099840
author Dodd, Emily
Ismail, Sanda
Christopher, Gary
Wildschut, Tim
Sedikides, Constantine
Cheston, Richard
author_facet Dodd, Emily
Ismail, Sanda
Christopher, Gary
Wildschut, Tim
Sedikides, Constantine
Cheston, Richard
author_sort Dodd, Emily
collection PubMed
description OBJECTIVES: Nostalgic memories are more social than other forms of autobiographical recall, often refer to atypical events, express more positive affect and reflect life as meaningful. Recalling a nostalgic (compared to ordinary) memory increases self-esteem, self-growth, meaning in life and social connectedness for people living with dementia. We set two objectives: to work with people living with dementia to develop an intervention based on nostalgia, and to assess whether couples could engage in nostalgic conversations. METHOD: Our research fell into three phases. Initially, we consulted with people living with dementia and with carers to identify the parameters for a nostalgic intervention. From this, we drafted a workbook that contained triggers for nostalgic conversations, which we then took back to the public contributors for refinement. Finally, we trialled the workbook over 5 weeks with six couples, each of which included a person living with dementia. We assessed pre- and post-intervention self-esteem, self-growth, meaning in life and social connectedness for participants with dementia and social connectedness for carers. We then calculated Reliable Change Index scores and established levels of clinically significant change. We also interviewed couples at the end of the intervention to explore its implementation and acceptability. RESULTS: All six couples could identify nostalgic memories, with five couples successfully integrating the nostalgic conversations into their day-to-day lives. A sixth couple found it difficult to engage fully with the intervention, but still considered it useful. All six couples manifested a reliable change in at least one outcome, with one couple showing reliable change across three outcomes. CONCLUSION: The psychological benefits of nostalgia have been robustly demonstrated in laboratory-based studies. This co-production of an intervention that sets nostalgic recall into the context of a conversation has clinical potential but requires further investigation through a larger study.
format Online
Article
Text
id pubmed-8811318
institution National Center for Biotechnology Information
language English
publishDate 2021
publisher SAGE Publications
record_format MEDLINE/PubMed
spelling pubmed-88113182022-02-04 Nostalgic conversations: The co-production of an intervention package for people living with dementia and their spouse Dodd, Emily Ismail, Sanda Christopher, Gary Wildschut, Tim Sedikides, Constantine Cheston, Richard Dementia (London) Articles OBJECTIVES: Nostalgic memories are more social than other forms of autobiographical recall, often refer to atypical events, express more positive affect and reflect life as meaningful. Recalling a nostalgic (compared to ordinary) memory increases self-esteem, self-growth, meaning in life and social connectedness for people living with dementia. We set two objectives: to work with people living with dementia to develop an intervention based on nostalgia, and to assess whether couples could engage in nostalgic conversations. METHOD: Our research fell into three phases. Initially, we consulted with people living with dementia and with carers to identify the parameters for a nostalgic intervention. From this, we drafted a workbook that contained triggers for nostalgic conversations, which we then took back to the public contributors for refinement. Finally, we trialled the workbook over 5 weeks with six couples, each of which included a person living with dementia. We assessed pre- and post-intervention self-esteem, self-growth, meaning in life and social connectedness for participants with dementia and social connectedness for carers. We then calculated Reliable Change Index scores and established levels of clinically significant change. We also interviewed couples at the end of the intervention to explore its implementation and acceptability. RESULTS: All six couples could identify nostalgic memories, with five couples successfully integrating the nostalgic conversations into their day-to-day lives. A sixth couple found it difficult to engage fully with the intervention, but still considered it useful. All six couples manifested a reliable change in at least one outcome, with one couple showing reliable change across three outcomes. CONCLUSION: The psychological benefits of nostalgia have been robustly demonstrated in laboratory-based studies. This co-production of an intervention that sets nostalgic recall into the context of a conversation has clinical potential but requires further investigation through a larger study. SAGE Publications 2021-10-08 2022-02 /pmc/articles/PMC8811318/ /pubmed/34625006 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/14713012211047350 Text en © The Author(s) 2021 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) which permits any use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access page (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage).
spellingShingle Articles
Dodd, Emily
Ismail, Sanda
Christopher, Gary
Wildschut, Tim
Sedikides, Constantine
Cheston, Richard
Nostalgic conversations: The co-production of an intervention package for people living with dementia and their spouse
title Nostalgic conversations: The co-production of an intervention package for people living with dementia and their spouse
title_full Nostalgic conversations: The co-production of an intervention package for people living with dementia and their spouse
title_fullStr Nostalgic conversations: The co-production of an intervention package for people living with dementia and their spouse
title_full_unstemmed Nostalgic conversations: The co-production of an intervention package for people living with dementia and their spouse
title_short Nostalgic conversations: The co-production of an intervention package for people living with dementia and their spouse
title_sort nostalgic conversations: the co-production of an intervention package for people living with dementia and their spouse
topic Articles
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8811318/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34625006
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/14713012211047350
work_keys_str_mv AT doddemily nostalgicconversationsthecoproductionofaninterventionpackageforpeoplelivingwithdementiaandtheirspouse
AT ismailsanda nostalgicconversationsthecoproductionofaninterventionpackageforpeoplelivingwithdementiaandtheirspouse
AT christophergary nostalgicconversationsthecoproductionofaninterventionpackageforpeoplelivingwithdementiaandtheirspouse
AT wildschuttim nostalgicconversationsthecoproductionofaninterventionpackageforpeoplelivingwithdementiaandtheirspouse
AT sedikidesconstantine nostalgicconversationsthecoproductionofaninterventionpackageforpeoplelivingwithdementiaandtheirspouse
AT chestonrichard nostalgicconversationsthecoproductionofaninterventionpackageforpeoplelivingwithdementiaandtheirspouse