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The degree of bedroom personalization in institutional and homelike settings for persons with dementia
— a quantitative investigation | | Author(s) | Anderson W Chuck, Doris L Milke, Charles H M Beck |
| Journal title | Canadian Journal on Aging, vol 24, no 4, Winter 2005 |
| Pages | pp 329-338 |
| Source | http://www.utpjournals.com |
| Keywords | Dementia ; Bedrooms ; Environmental aesthetics ; Architectural design ; Care homes ; Quantitative studies ; Canada. |
| Annotation | The extent of personalisation of three types of bedrooms, varying as to their homelike quality - private-homelike, private institutional, and ward-institutional - are compared. A measure of the relative degree of personalisation was obtained by recording the number of personal items for each room and dividing the number of items per room by each room's available vertical and horizontal surface area. The degree of personalisation was found to be significantly greater in private-homelike rooms than in private-institutional or and ward-institutional rooms. The study provides the first demonstration that personalisation of a resident's bedroom can be quantified, and opens the way for studies of factors contributing to the effect (e.g. facility regulations, family and staff attitudes) and empirical studies of personnel consequences (e.g. resident satisfaction and improved functioning). (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-070110201 A |
| Classmark | EA: YDF: R7: YB3: KW: 3DQ: 7S |
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