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Table 3 Example of the ‘Making a telephone call’ activity divided into different core elements

From: Structured relearning of activities of daily living in dementia: the randomized controlled REDALI-DEM trial on errorless learning

 

Core element

 

Get the number

Dial the number

Make conversation and end call

End task

Possible steps

– Take a telephone book or mobile phone

– Search the telephone number in the mobile phone or phonebook

– Write the number on a piece of paper

– Press the correct numbers on the telephone to dial the number

OR

– Select the correct name in the telephone book of the telephone

– Press the correct button to make the telephone call

– Talk into the telephone

OR

– Talk into the telephone using the ‘speaker’ function

– End the call by pressing the correct button

– Place the telephone back in the right position

– Put away the telephone book and piece of paper