Resources designed for health professionals to help with attitudinal competencies and communication skills that are essential for the care of older adults.
The “findings” and “discussion” section offer valuable insight into the ways older adults with dementia communicate nonverbally, and how these behaviours can be interpreted. It also offers a good discussion on the importance of caregiver/HCP competence in this nonverbal communication to help preserve a sense of identity/self in the older adult who has difficulty with verbal communication (this article focuses on dementia, but the concepts discussed could be applied to many causes of impaired verbal communication)