Oral Narratives from Elderly Individuals with Cognitive Impairment

95 elderly individuals produced oral narratives based on a sequence of figures called The Dog Story. The study by Gislaine Machado Jerônimo analyzes communicative strategies in these narratives across healthy aging, Mild Cognitive Impairment, and Alzheimer's disease groups. Results indicate higher use of communicative strategies in impaired groups and an influence of educational level in healthy controls.

Use Cases

• Analyzing communicative strategy patterns based on oral narrative transcripts
• Investigating the impact of educational level on narrative performance in healthy aging
• Comparing linguistic features between healthy elderly, Mild Cognitive Impairment, and Alzheimer's disease groups

Strengths

• Study involves 95 elderly participants, providing a substantive sample size
• Analysis is based on a controlled narrative task (The Dog Story) for consistent data collection
• Examines both impaired groups and a healthy control group with consideration for educational variable

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment
• Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified

Provenance

Source

Gislaine Machado Jerônimo

Collection Method

Oral narrative production task based on a sequence of figures (The Dog Story).