Himotoki as a decision-making empowerment tool to live well with dementia
- 5 February 2022
- journal article
- Published by Peertechz Publications Private Limited in Annals of Alzheimer's and Dementia Care
- p. 007-013
- https://doi.org/10.17352/aadc.000022
Abstract
Shared decision-making is indispensable among people with dementia, their families, and healthcare professionals to ensure that people with dementia live well. Since living with dementia involves the process of losing one’s independence and requiring support from others in all aspects of life, everyday life becomes a series of shared decision-making and collaborative efforts. Dementia care includes the process of rebuilding relationships through shared decision-making and collaboration. In particular, it is of paramount importance to make decisions on how to live well with dementia. Owing to a decline in independence, it may become difficult for people with dementia to live well or achieve happiness on their own. Hence, they are expected to cooperate with people close to them, including family members, to lead happy and fulfilling lives. While making a shared decision, conversations with a person with dementia may result in miscommunication due to a decline in their ability to communicate. If it is difficult to understand certain words or actions of the person with dementia, rather than dismissing them as incomprehensible, caregivers are recommended to analyze the factors underlying those words and actions (background factors), such as the person’s current cognitive state and functioning, human and physical environments, and relationships with other people.Keywords
This publication has 25 references indexed in Scilit:
- How do persons with dementia participate in decision making related to health and daily care? A multi-case studyBMC Health Services Research, 2012
- The Art and Science of Diabetes Education A Culture Out of BalanceThe Diabetes Educator, 2008
- Error analyses reveal contrasting deficits in “theory of mind”: Neuropsychological evidence from a 3-option false belief taskNeuropsychologia, 2007
- Reading minds versus following rules: Dissociating theory of mind and executive control in the brainSocial Neuroscience, 2006
- It's the Thought That CountsPsychological Science, 2006
- Making sense of another mind: The role of the right temporo-parietal junctionNeuropsychologia, 2005
- Belief-desire reasoning as a process of selectionCognitive Psychology, 2005
- Core mechanisms in ‘theory of mind’Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 2004
- Left temporoparietal junction is necessary for representing someone else's beliefNature Neuroscience, 2004
- People thinking about thinking people: The role of the temporo-parietal junction in “theory of mind”NeuroImage, 2003