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Just how challenging can older people be?
— Part 1: Selecting the appropriate tool for measuring aggression within services | | Author(s) | Chrissie Johnson, Caroline Knight, Inga Stewart |
| Journal title | PSIGE Newsletter, no 103, April 2008 |
| Publisher | Psychologists' Special Interest Group in Elderly People - PSIGE, British Psychological Society, April 2008 |
| Pages | pp 46-65 |
| Source | http://www.psige.org.uk |
| Keywords | Aggression ; Behaviour disorders ; Psychogeriatric patients ; Evaluation. |
| Annotation | Over the last 15 years, a growing focus on psychosocial and behavioural outcomes of dementia has resulted in the development of a wide range of tools for recording challenging behaviour. The link between aggression and dementia is well documented, and the prevalence of this behaviour in combination with the potential severity of its consequences has led to the development of a number of specific tools to record levels of aggression in older people. These are imperative for clinicians and researchers to accurately explore identified behaviour in more depth, to drive treatment approaches, and for evaluation. However, professionals are now faced with a confusing and often disparate array of tools for measuring aggressive behaviour in older people. As such, instruments may be selected on the basis of familiarity, rather than matching the exact needs of the investigator. This paper aims to provide professionals with a consolidated review of the tools that exist for measuring aggression in older adult services, and to assist in the selection of an appropriate tool to meet these service needs. A framework of issues and considerations pertinent to choosing a recording tool is provided and a comparison between tools is offered based on these criteria. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-080428209 A |
| Classmark | EPB: EP: LF:E: 4C |
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