Bibliographic record
Abstract
In 2010 the Alzheimer Society of London and Middlesex (ASLM) acknowledged a gap in services for those living in the early to middle stages of Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias (ADOD). There was a need for programs which provide social, emotional, cognitive and physical stimulation in shorter time spans than a full day at a day program. Research suggests recreational programming may improve one’s quality of life by maintaining functional ability and independence while slowing down the progression of the disease. In 2010 ASLM began to offer a variety of social recreation programs to our clients in the early to middle stages of ADOD. ASLM’s programs include cooking, exercise, knitting, scrapbooking, art, gardening and music. The curriculum for the program activities build on strengths, positive emotion, meaningful moments, enjoyment, challenges and development. The clients are paired 1:1 with volunteers providing socialization and engagement on the task. In the last five years the social recreation programs have grown fivefold. ASLM started with just one cooking program and has expanded to eight different programs extending our services throughout the London and Middlesex County. For caregivers, the respite time has lowered levels of stress and burden. For the clients, the programs have been a safe place to connect with others going through the same experiences while improving skills in all domains and providing a sense of accomplishment. This has been a good starting point and “First Link” in the early stages of the disease for both the client and the family to get connected with the Alzheimer Society earlier for ongoing support such as education and counselling. Physicians have increasingly been “prescribing” physical, mental and social leisure activities as viable treatment options for ADOD. Recreation improves persons with dementia quality of life by providing an enjoyable atmosphere to develop and maintain important skills. ASLM’s programs provide people living with ADOD experience participating in recreational programs in the early to mid-stages of their disease. The transition to full-day programming, which is brought on by the progression of their illness, may be smoother for people who have participated in these programs.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.005 | 0.005 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.005 | 0.005 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.011 |
| Research integrity | 0.005 | 0.006 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.041 | 0.011 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".