Psychology

Description

Jan works in an aged-care facility and wants to know how to prevent or minimize the effects of dementia. She read that keeping your brain active in old age protects against some forms of dementia. Jan wanted to investigate this hypothesis so as to better provide assistance for her elderly clients. She noticed that many elderly clients enjoyed completing crosswords, and that these people seemed to be the ones exhibiting the fewest signs of dementia. To investigate her hypothesis she measured every client with respect to:

How to structure scientific studies with clinical outcomes

Online revision.

Undergraduate – First year Psychology (offered as an elective or pre-requisite course for a number of different undergraduate degrees).

Case developed with Dr. Oren Griffith, Dr. Tom Whitford.

This case is brought to you by the InCH project

Inter Disciplinary Collaboration in Healthcare introducing an innovative next generation case based teaching framework for PBL and interdisciplinary case authoring

The InCH project is funded by HWA’s Simulated Learning Environments (SLEs) program.