Randomized trial investigates language processing in Mandarin sentence repetition among older adults with Alzheimer's, indicating cognitive decline effects.
Key Points
This article aims to explore the language processing abilities in Mandarin sentence repetition among individuals with Alzheimer's disease compared to healthy controls.
Collected speech samples from 14 Mandarin-speaking older adults with Alzheimer's and 31 control adults (younger and older).
Participants completed a working memory task alongside a Mandarin sentence repetition task.
Analyzed scores from tasks and categorized errors in the repetition task.
Found a strong positive association between working memory and Mandarin repetition performance across all groups.
Identified significant differences between groups related to dementia effects, age, and other linguistic factors.