Understanding behaviours in dementiaHarrison Dening, KarenAldridge, ZenaJournal of Community Nursing
Dementia and its associated behaviours present a growing concern for the health care system. Enhancing the skills of caregivers is an important step in managing the problem. Gaining an understanding of why individuals demonstrate certain behaviours may increase caregivers' confidence. It is hoped that ...
METHOD: TAP is an occupational therapy (OT) community-based intervention program that prescribes personalised activities to reduce difficult behaviours of dementia. The OT works with carers over a 4-month period (assessment, activity prescription, and generalisation of strategies). Study measures were ...
Identify risk factors for neurodegenerative disease and explain that brain health can be protected through lifestyle choices and risk modification behaviours Evaluate the latest methods in brain health research, including the design of clinical trials for interventions to prevent dementia Explore the ways ...
“brain plasticity” in autism could act as a buffer against Alzheimer’s dementia (Oberman and Pascual-Leone2014). While there is little hard evidence to support this view, certain areas of functioning, notably verbal fluency, seem to belessprone to decline in older autistic adults than in ...
In addition, gender shapes all aspects of health and well-being, how illness is experienced, how people manage their health, and their associated health behaviours including help-seeking, and engagement with healthcare services [3]. The specific health conditions that impact the life expectancy of...
Older adults with HIV have an increased risk of dementia, diabetes, frailty, depression, osteoporosis, and some cancers, compared to those who are HIV negative [10,11,12]. Comorbidities commonly associated with ageing (e.g., diabetes) have been found to increase the risk of opportunistic infec...
However, automatic behaviours may be more difficult for observers to decode. The model outlined herein takes into account the role of various human developmental stages in pain experience and expression and in understanding the utility of self-report and observational measures. We conclude that both ...
Signs of Dementiacan help you recognize behaviours. Imagine You Have Dementiamight help you understand. ‘Be in the room’ during aTest for Alzheimer’s RESOURCES THAT SUPPORTa caregiver’s need for information: Supportand assistanceto findAlzheimer Society links ...
End of life care guidance for people with dementia is lacking and this has been made more problematic in England with the removal of one of the main end of... N Davies,J Manthorpe,EL Sampson,... 被引量: 0发表: 2019年 Challenging behaviours: Views and preferences of people with intellec...