Cognitive Rehabilitation for People With Mild-to-moderate Dementia

"Cognitive Rehabilitation is a person-centred, goal-oriented, problem-solving therapy aimed at managing or reducing functional disability, mitigating excess disability, and maximising engagement and social participation (Clare et al., 2019, p. 710). For this multiple-baseline SCED, there will be a baseline phase where participants will be assessed on goal attainment without an intervention. This phase will be either 3, 4, 5 weeks long and be determined for the participants using an electronic randomiser programme. Thereafter, facilitators will help participants devise personal rehabilitation plans to achieve one of these goals using evidence-based rehabilitative methods. These methods may include the use of environmental adaptations and prompts, introduction of compensatory strategies, procedural learning of skills, and methods for learning or relearning relevant information. The personal rehabilitation plan is put into practice for 6 weeks during the intervention phase of the study."