{"id":22981,"date":"2025-05-03T09:20:49","date_gmt":"2025-05-03T09:20:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/honey-sweetie-dearie-there-are-perils-in-elderspeak\/"},"modified":"2025-05-03T09:20:49","modified_gmt":"2025-05-03T09:20:49","slug":"honey-sweetie-dearie-there-are-perils-in-elderspeak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/honey-sweetie-dearie-there-are-perils-in-elderspeak\/","title":{"rendered":"Honey, Sweetie, Dearie: There Are Perils in \u2018Elderspeak\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-0\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">A prime example of elderspeak: Cindy Smith was visiting with her father in his assisted living apartment in Roseville, Calif. An aide who was trying to induce him to do something \u2014 Ms. Smith no longer remembers exactly what \u2014 said, \u201cLet me help you, sweetheart.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cHe just gave her The Look \u2014 under his bushy eyebrows \u2014 and said, \u2018What, are we getting married?\u2019\u201d recalled Ms. Smith, who had a good laugh, she said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Her father was then 92, a retired county planner and a World War II veteran; macular degeneration had reduced the quality of his vision and he used a walker to get around, but he remained cognitively sharp.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cHe wouldn\u2019t normally get too frosty with people,\u201d Ms. Smith said. \u201cBut he did have the sense that he was a grown up, and he wasn\u2019t always treated like one.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-1\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">People understand almost intuitively what \u201celderspeak\u201d means. \u201cIt\u2019s communication to older adults that sounds like baby talk,\u201d said Clarissa Shaw, a dementia care researcher at the University of Iowa College of Nursing and a coauthor of <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/academic.oup.com\/gerontologist\/advance-article\/doi\/10.1093\/geront\/gnaf093\/8051882\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">a recent article<\/a> that helps researchers document its use.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cIt arises from an ageist assumption of frailty, incompetence and dependence.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Its elements include inappropriate endearments. \u201cElderspeak can be controlling, kind of bossy, so to soften that message there\u2019s \u2018honey,\u2019 \u2018dearie,\u2019 \u2018sweetie,\u2019\u201d said Kristine Williams, a nurse gerontologist at the University of Kansas School of Nursing and another coauthor.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cWe have negative stereotypes of older adults, so we change the way we talk.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Or caregivers may resort to plural pronouns: <em class=\"css-2fg4z9 e1gzwzxm0\">Are we ready to take our bath?<\/em> There, the implication \u201cis that the person\u2019s not able to act as an individual,\u201d Dr. Williams said. \u201cHopefully, I\u2019m not taking the bath with you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Sometimes, elderspeakers employ a louder volume, shorter sentences or simple words intoned slowly. Or they may adopt an exaggerated, singsong vocal quality more suited to preschoolers, along with words like \u201cpotty\u201d or \u201cjammies.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">With so-called tag questions \u2014 <em class=\"css-2fg4z9 e1gzwzxm0\">It\u2019s time for you to eat lunch now, right? <\/em>\u2014 \u201cYou\u2019re asking them a question but you\u2019re not letting them respond,\u201d Dr. Williams explained. \u201cYou\u2019re telling them how to respond.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-2\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Studies in nursing homes show how commonplace such speech is. When Dr. Williams, Dr. Shaw and their team analyzed video recordings of 80 interactions between staff and residents with dementia, they found that <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/articles\/PMC5572481\/\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">84 percent<\/a> had involved some form of elderspeak.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cMost of elderspeak is well intended. People are trying to show they care,\u201d Dr. Williams said. \u201cThey don\u2019t realize the negative messages that come through.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">For example, among nursing home residents with dementia, <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/27048705\/\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">studies have found a relationship<\/a> between exposure to elderspeak and behaviors collectively known as resistance to care.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cPeople can turn away or cry or say no,\u201d Dr. Williams explained. \u201cThey may clench their mouths shut when you\u2019re trying to feed them.\u201d Sometimes, they push caregivers away or strike them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">She and her team developed a training program called CHAT (for Changing Talk), three hourlong sessions that include videos of communication between staff and patients, intended to reduce elderspeak.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-3\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">It worked. Before the training, in 13 nursing homes in Kansas and Missouri, almost 35 percent of the time spent in interactions consisted of elderspeak; that number was only about 20 percent afterward.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">At the same time, resistant behaviors accounted for almost 36 percent of the time spent in encounters; after training, that proportion fell to about 20 percent.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">A study conducted in a Midwestern hospital, again among patients with dementia, found <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/35642656\/\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">the same sort of decline in resistance<\/a> behavior. <\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">What\u2019s more, CHAT training in nursing homes was associated with <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/30471803\/\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">lower use of antipsychotic drugs<\/a>. Though the results did not reach statistical significance, due in part to the small sample size, the research team deemed them \u201cclinically significant.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cMany of these medications have a black box warning from the F.D.A.,\u201d Dr. Williams said of the drugs. \u201cIt\u2019s risky to use them in frail, older adults\u201d because of their side effects.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-4\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Now, Dr. Williams, Dr. Shaw and their colleagues have streamlined the CHAT training and adapted it for online use. They are examining its effects in about 200 nursing homes nationwide.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Even without formal training programs, individuals and institutions can combat elderspeak. Kathleen Carmody, owner of Senior Matters Home Care and Consulting in Columbus, Ohio, cautions her aides to address clients as Mr. or Mrs. or Ms., \u201cunless or until they say, \u2018Please call me Betty.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In long-term care, however, families and residents may worry that correcting the way staff members speak could create antagonisms.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">A few years ago, Carol Fahy was fuming about the way aides at an assisted living facility in suburban Cleveland treated her mother, who was blind and had become increasingly dependent in her 80s.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Calling her \u201csweetie\u201d and \u201choney babe,\u201d the staff \u201cwould hover and coo, and they put her hair up in two pigtails on top of her head, like you would with a toddler,\u201d said Ms. Fahy, 72, a psychologist in Kaneohe, Hawaii.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-5\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Although she recognized the aides\u2019 agreeable intentions, \u201cthere\u2019s a falseness about it,\u201d she said. \u201cIt doesn\u2019t make someone feel good. It\u2019s actually alienating.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Ms. Fahy considered discussing her objections with the aides, but \u201cI didn\u2019t want them to retaliate.\u201d Eventually, for several reasons, she moved her mother to another facility.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Yet objecting to elderspeak need not become adversarial, Dr. Shaw said. Residents and patients \u2014 and people who encounter elderspeak elsewhere, because it\u2019s hardly limited to health care settings \u2014 can politely explain how they prefer to be spoken to and what they want to be called.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Cultural differences also come into play. Felipe Agudelo, who teaches health communications at Boston University, pointed out that in certain contexts, a diminutive or term of endearment \u201cdoesn\u2019t come from underestimating your intellectual ability. It\u2019s a term of affection.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">He emigrated from Colombia, where his 80-year-old mother takes no offense when a doctor or health care worker asks her to \u201ct\u00f3mese la pastillita\u201d (take this little pill) or \u201cmueva la manito\u201d (move the little hand).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-6\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">That\u2019s customary, and \u201cshe feels she\u2019s talking to someone who cares,\u201d Dr. Agudelo said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cCome to a place of negotiation,\u201d he advised. \u201cIt doesn\u2019t have to be challenging. The patient has the right to say, \u2018I don\u2019t like your talking to me that way.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In return, the worker \u201cshould acknowledge that the recipient may not come from the same cultural background,\u201d he said. That person can respond, \u201cThis is the way I usually talk, but I can change it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Lisa Greim, 65, a retired writer in Arvada, Colo., pushed back against elderspeak recently when she enrolled in Medicare drug coverage.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Suddenly, she recounted in an email, a mail-order pharmacy began calling almost daily because she hadn\u2019t filled a prescription as expected.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">These \u201cgently condescending\u201d callers, apparently reading from a script, all said, \u201cIt\u2019s hard to remember to take our meds, isn\u2019t it?\u201d \u2014 as if they were all swallowing pills together with Ms. Greim.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-7\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Annoyed by their presumption, and their follow-up question about how frequently she forgot her medications, Ms. Greim informed them that having stocked up earlier, she had a sufficient supply, thanks. She would reorder when she needed more.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Then, \u201cI asked them to stop calling,\u201d she said. \u201cAnd they did.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\"><em class=\"css-2fg4z9 e1gzwzxm0\">The New Old Age is produced through a partnership with <\/em><a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/kffhealthnews.org\/\" title=\"https:\/\/kffhealthnews.org\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"><em class=\"css-2fg4z9 e1gzwzxm0\">KFF Health News<\/em><\/a><em class=\"css-2fg4z9 e1gzwzxm0\">.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     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