The Elderly Language Activity In Aisyiyah Nursing Home of Surakarta (Psycholinguistic Threats: Information Consistency on Elderly through Storytelling)

Keywords

elderly, dementia, storytelling, psycholinguistics

Abstract

One of the strategies to inhibit dementia process can be realized through giving someone attention or providing them storytelling media. People with dementia generally suffer from short-term memory loss, however, they have detailed memories of past events. The unique thing in this study is related to the lack of short-term memory (things that have just happened) and long-term (things that happened in the past) occur hypothetically because of the lack of media to tell personal matters, media interaction, and knowledge.This study was conducted at the Nursing Home of Asyiyah in Surakarta, after previous studies which had focused on mastering semantic features, in which 10 subjects were indicated to have a tendency suffering from dementia. Therefore, an attempt to test their language competence, and indicate potential possibilities which enable them to overcome the symptoms of dementia by the virtue of language use, will suppose to be an alternative of suppressing the number of patients with dementia in Surakarta City and in Indonesia on a general scale.The results of this study indicated that educational levels are not an absolute factor affecting the consistency of information conveyed by informants, even though these qualifications contribute to the nuances of choice diction. Other findings are related to non-linguistic factors, such as attention, which also contribute to language retention on informants as well as providing psychological effects on them in recalling semantic features.

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© 2018, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Sumarlam Sumarlam
AU  - Djatmika Djatmika
AU  - Sri Pamungkas
PY  - 2018/11
DA  - 2018/11
TI  - The Elderly Language Activity In Aisyiyah Nursing Home of Surakarta (Psycholinguistic Threats: Information Consistency on Elderly through Storytelling)
BT  - Proceedings of the International Seminar on Recent Language, Literature, and Local Cultural Studies (BASA 2018)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 317
EP  - 321
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://www.atlantis-press.com/article/25906103
ID  - Sumarlam2018/11
ER  -