Table 1.
Participant information and results on language and cognitive screening tests.
| Dyad 1 | Dyad 2 | Dyad 3 | Dyad 4 | Dyad 5 | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PwPD 1 | CP 2 | PwPD | CP | PwPD | CP | PwPD | CP | PwPD | CP | |
| Age | 78 | 73 | 67 | 61 | 78 | 76 | 70 | 66 | 63 | 55 |
| Education (years) | 11 | 10 | * | * | 9 | 7 | 7.5 | 10.5 | 8 | 13 |
| Years together | 51 | 42 | 57 | 41 | 18 | |||||
| Stage of PD 3 | V | IV | III | IV | IV | |||||
| Comprehensibility in contextual speech | 39% | 31% | 83% | 31% | 23% | |||||
| Token test (max: 261) | * | 259 | 193 | 169 | 228 | |||||
| Phonological verbal fluency (F-A-S) | 2-0-0 | 9-3-11 | 2-3-8 | 5-4-3 | 3-4-4 | |||||
| Semantic verbal fluency (animals-verbs) | 0-0 | 15-10 | 6-3 | 15-5 | 2-1 | |||||
| MMSE (max 30 4) | * | 26 5 | 22 | * | 29 | |||||
Notes: 1 = Person with Parkinson’s disease; 2 = Communication partner; * = Missing information; 3 = Stages of PD according to Hoehn & Yahr [37] focus on the movement disorder and runs from stage I (“Unilateral involvement only, usually with minimal or no functional impairment”) to stage V (“Confinement to bed or wheelchair unless aided”). It is thus not directly related to degree of communication disorder. 4 = Results below 24 points on the Mini Mental State Examination (MMSE) indicate cognitive decline. 5 = One visuospatial item in MMSE was not carried out by this participant due to the movement disorder.