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| Mental health correlates of aggression in nursing home residents with dementia | | Author(s) | Karen Amann Talerico, Lois K Evans, Neville E Strumpf |
| Journal title | The Gerontologist, vol 42, no 2, April 2002 |
| Pages | pp 169-177 |
| Keywords | Aggression ; Dementia ; Residents [care homes] ; Nursing homes ; Psychiatric treatment ; Correlation ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | Aggression continues to challenge caregivers of people with dementia, and identification of foci for effective interventions is needed. This cross-sectional study examines the influence of: resident characteristics of depression, communication and cognition; and behaviour management strategies on aggression in a group of 405 older nursing home residents with evidence of dementia. Main findings are that impaired communication is associated with all forms of aggression, depression with physical aggression, and disorientation with verbal aggression. A pattern of antipsychotic drug use in the previous 3 months was consistently associated with all forms of aggression and physical restraint use with physical aggression. Most of the explained variance was attributable to antipsychotic drug use. Further mental health interventions could be targeted at compensating for impaired communication and the treatment of depression to improve the mental health of nursing home residents with dementia. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-020806208 A |
| Classmark | EPB: EA: KX: LHB: LP: 49: 7T |
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