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Getting lost in the community
— a phone survey on the community-dwelling demented people in Hong Kong | | Author(s) | Timothy C Y Kwok, Kenneth S L Yuen, Florence K Y Ho |
| Journal title | International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, vol 25, no 4, April 2010 |
| Pages | pp 427-432 |
| Source | http://www.interscience.wiley.com/journal/gps doi: 10.1002/gps.2361 |
| Keywords | Dementia ; Wandering ; Memory and Reminiscence ; Living in the community ; Social surveys ; Hong Kong. |
| Annotation | The incidence rate of dementia patients getting lost in the community ranging from 30% to 60% reported in research from Western countries imposes a significant burden on caregivers. In the current study, the authors investigated the incidence of getting lost in Hong Kong, a densely populated as well as homogeneous community environment. 250 caregivers of older people with dementia who had either used a dementia day care service or participated in a community survey were interviewed on the telephone. Respondents were asked about the older person's experience of getting lost in the community and their mode of care. Correlating factors of such incidents were examined. The overall prevalence of lost history was 27.5%. The subjects recruited from day care centres were much more likely than those recruited fro the community survey to have a history of being lost (39.2% vs 7.5%, p<0.0001, chi-squared test). Greater degrees of cognitive decline were associated with greater chance of of having had lost episodes. Immobility was associated with lower risk. Both the older people and their caregivers had reported significant degrees of psychological disturbances after the incidents. Demented people with greater degrees of cognitive decline and with mobility maintained an at greater risk of getting lost. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-100702004 A |
| Classmark | EA: EPC: DB: K4: 3F: 7DR |
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