TY  - JOUR
U1  - Zeitschriftenartikel, wissenschaftlich - begutachtet (reviewed)
A1  - Schnabel, Eva-Luisa
A1  - Wahl, Hans-Werner
A1  - Streib, Christina
A1  - Schmidt, Thomas
T1  - Elderspeak in Acute Hospitals? The Role of Context, Cognitive and Functional Impairment
JF  - Research on Aging
N2  - 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.
KW  - Älterer Mensch
KW  - Alter
KW  - Gesprochene Sprache
KW  - elderspeak
KW  - contextual framework
KW  - age stereotypes
KW  - functional status
KW  - cognitive impairment
KW  - acute hospital
KW  - Stereotyp
KW  - Altenbild
KW  - Pflegeheim
KW  - Geriatrie
Y1  - 2020
UN  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bsz:mh39-100876
SN  - 1552-7573
SS  - 1552-7573
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1177/0164027520949090
DO  - https://doi.org/10.1177/0164027520949090
VL  - 2020
IS  - 10.09.2020
SP  - 1
EP  - 12
PB  - Sage Publishing
CY  - London
ER  -