Suzanna Dooley PhD., CSLS. MIASLT is a speech and language
therapist in a community hospital in the Health Service Executive
in Dublin, Ireland. She is a clinical specialist in communication
and dementia. Her teaching, practice and research focuses on the
assessment of cognitive communication disorders in dementia and the
development of conversation coaching interventions for people with
dementia and their supporters. The P-CAD validation study formed
the basis of her PhD research with Dr. Margaret Walshe in 2020 in
Trinity College Dublin and was funded by the Health Research Board
Ireland.
Tammy Hopper, PhD, R-SLP, CCC-SLP is a speech-language pathologist
and professor in the Department of Communication Sciences and
Disorders, Faculty of Rehabilitation Medicine, at the University of
Alberta in Canada. She has worked with individuals with dementia in
research and clinical settings for more than two decades. The focus
of her research is on interventions to facilitate communication
between individuals with dementia and their friends, family and
caregivers. She is an author or co-author of more than 75 published
manuscripts and book chapters, and she has provided more than 80
presentations on her research. She lives in Edmonton, Alberta,
Canada with her husband, two children, three cats, and one dog.
Margaret Walshe, M.Sc. PhD is an Associate Professor and speech and
language therapist at the University of Dublin, Trinity College
Dublin, Ireland. Her specific area of interest is evidence-based
practice and rehabilitation in communication and swallowing
disorders. She has worked with individuals with dementia focusing
on communication and swallowing difficulties as a clinician for a
number of years. She is a member of the interprofessional Cochrane
Rehabilitation Field and has published over 160 manuscripts and
conference abstracts.
Profiling Communication in Dementia (P-CAD) is designed to assess
the functional communication abilities of persons with dementia and
determine the communication supports needed to maintain a quality
life. The P-CAD is unique in that communication partners are
included in the assessment allowing for their input and revealing
specific support strategies for different settings. The P-CAD has
shown strong positive correlations with the Functional Linguistic
Communication Inventory (FLCI), the Mini Mental State
Examination-2, and across Levels 4-7 of the Global Deterioration
Scale (GDS). It will be a useful alternative to other measures of
cognitive communication functioning.
*Dr Michelle Bourgeois*
Covers many of the domains I think are important for assessment of
communication skills in dementia (particularly AD and Vascular) and
it seems broadly culturally relevant and current. The stimulus
images are clear. It won't take too long and is a good mixture of
tests and observations. I feel it is comparable to other tests such
as the Comprehensive aphasia test, and an improvement on the ABCD.
It is more comprehensive than the MMSE and more functional. I also
appreciate it has standardised with people with dementia. It
emphasises the importance of the interactional component being a
joint responsibility of both participants in the conversation. It
can definitely be used to identify support strategies- with some
tentative individualisation. I prefer it to an MMSE. It is more
functional and relevant. I believe it is the first tool to
include communication partner as a central focus of the
assessment.
*Dr Anna Volkmer, University College London*
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