@article{SchnabelWahlStreibetal.2020,
  author    = {Eva-Luisa Schnabel and Hans-Werner Wahl and Christina Streib and Thomas Schmidt},
  title     = {Elderspeak in Acute Hospitals? The Role of Context, Cognitive and Functional Impairment},
  series   = {Research on Aging},
  volume    = {2020},
  number    = {10.09.2020},
  publisher = {Sage Publishing},
  address   = {London},
  issn      = {1552-7573},
  doi       = {10.1177/0164027520949090},
  url       = {https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bsz:mh39-100876},
  pages     = {1 -- 12},
  year      = {2020},
  abstract  = {Older adults are often exposed to elderspeak, a specialized speech register linked with negative outcomes. However, previous research has mainly been conducted in nursing homes without considering multiple contextual conditions. Based on a novel contextually-driven framework, we examined elderspeak in an acute general versus geriatric German hospital setting. Individuallevel information such as cognitive impairment (CI) and audio-recorded data from care interactions between 105 older patients (M = 83.2 years; 49\% with severe CI) and 34 registered nurses (M = 38.9 years) were assessed. Psycholinguistic analyses were based on manual coding (k = .85 to k = .97) and computer-assisted procedures. First, diminutives (61\%), collective pronouns (70\%), and tag questions (97\%) were detected. Second, patients’ functional impairment emerged as an important factor for elderspeak. Our study suggests that functional impairment may be a more salient trigger of stereotype activation than CI and that elderspeak deserves more attention in acute hospital settings.},
  language  = {en}
}