Behaviours that challenge is a term used to describe a cluster of symptoms associated with the experiences of dementia. The biomedical perspective often refers to these as behavioural and psychological symptoms of dementia (BPSD). As the dementia progresses, many people with dementia may experience ...
that were available for subsequent review; however it is unclear from the notes if these approaches were used.Conclusion.Pharmacological intervention is the most common approach to managing behaviours that challenge despite several studies highlighting reduced agitation for persons with dementia following ...
Objectives: Behaviours that challenge (BtC) reflect the most costly and burdensome aspects of dementia where non-pharmacological interventions rather than antipsychotic medication have been recommended as first-line approaches for over a decade (NICE 2006). This paper outlines professionals' views about ...
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A randomized controlled trial exploring the effect of music on agitated behaviours and anxiety in older people with dementia. Objectives: This study, as part of a larger programme of research, sought to investigate the effect that participation in a 40-min live group music program... Marie L....
Indeed, a significant challenge in health research is ensuring that findings are translated and disseminated in a way that facilitates behaviour change beyond the end of intervention periods (i.e., health behaviours are adopted in real-life settings) [5]. Decision tools which guide an individual ...
Suicidal thoughts are ideas that arise in a person's consciousness either willingly or unwillingly. They are very prevalent: it has been shown that around 21% of Europeans had such thoughts at some point in their life (Castillejos et al., 2021). A suicide attempt, on the other hand, is...
In a sense, it can be seen as a return of “Umgangsmusik” (i.e., functional, communicative, vernacular music; Besseler, 1926/2011), or participatory music-making (Turino, 2008)—supposedly primordial forms of music-making that directly reflect the situation or challenge a group of people...
That is not to say that having a surplus of a specific toy stops a guarder. It doesn’t. Tobby, my champion Mali toy guarder, rounded up those toys like lambs, moving them about to secure them from others. Though he would never challenge another dog who had a toy, he wasn’t ever...
The project has no foreseeable risk to the participants and their identity is fully protected. The computerised and self-reported psychological tests are coded by the attending physiotherapist and although they present a cognitive challenge, they are completed in segments between the elements of the ph...