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The effectiveness of control strategies for dementia-driven wandering, preventing escape attempts
— a case report | | Author(s) | Daniel Valle Padilla, Maria Teresa Daza Gonzalez, Inmaculada Fernandez Agis |
| Journal title | International Psychogeriatrics, vol 25, no 3, March 2013 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press, March 2013 |
| Pages | pp 500-504 |
| Source | www.journals.cambridge.org/ipg |
| Keywords | Dementia ; Wandering ; Preventative medicine ; Evaluation. |
| Annotation | One of the most complicated aspects of caring for patients with dementia is dementia-driven wandering due to its adverse ramifications. This article reports a case of an 80-year-old man who had been previously diagnosed with dementia with a score of 6 on the Reisberg Global Deterioration Scale (GDS). The patient went to an adult day care centre on a daily basis where he demonstrated wandering behaviour with a high rate of escape attempts (the number of times the centre's glass exit door was approached). The objective of this study was to present effective non-pharmacological intervention strategies for dementia-driven wandering. Assessed strategies included: environmental (subjective barriers), cognitive/behavioural (cognitive training with differential reinforcement), and combined (subjective barriers with cognitive/behavioural). The results showed that all of these three strategies significantly decreased the number of escape attempts. (JL). |
| Accession Number | CPA-130215212 A |
| Classmark | EA: EPC: LK2: 4C |
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