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Quality of life for people with dementia living in residential and nursing home care
— the impact of performance on activities of daily living, behavioral and psychological symptoms, language skills, and psychotropic drugs | | Author(s) | Clive Ballard, John O'Brien, Ian James |
| Journal title | International Psychogeriatrics, vol 13, no 1, March 2001 |
| Pages | pp 93-106 |
| Keywords | Dementia ; Care homes ; Nursing homes ; Quality of life ; Assessment procedures for mental patients ; Newcastle upon Tyne. |
| Annotation | All 209 people with dementia in four residential and two nursing homes in Newcastle upon Tyne received a standardised assessment: Neuropsychiatric Inventory (NPI), Barthel Scale, and psychotropic drugs prescribed. 112 of the residents were assessed using Dementia Care Mapping (DCM), an observational method for quality of life (QOL) indices. Lower performance on activities of daily living (ADLs) - reduced well-being (WB), social withdrawal (SW), engagement in activities (EA), and taking psychotropics - were associated with reduced QOL, but symptoms from the NPI were not. More focused prescribing of psychotropics and better staff training are essential. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-011009210 A |
| Classmark | EA: KW: LHB: F:59: DA:4C: 86A |
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