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| Eight years of data on residents in small dementia-care settings suggest functional performance in maintained | | Author(s) | Doris L Milke, James Leask, Chelsy George, Sandra Ziolkowski |
| Journal title | Journal of Housing for the Elderly, vol 29, no 3, July-September 2015 |
| Publisher | Taylor and Francis, July-September 2015 |
| Pages | pp 298-328 |
| Source | http://www.tandfonline.com |
| Keywords | Care homes ; Nursing homes ; Small ; Dementia ; Cognitive processes ; Evaluation ; Longitudinal surveys ; Canada. |
| Annotation | Eight years of data analysis on residents' status from three small Alzheimer care centres suggest notable stability in function. Individuals' functional ability was best in their first year, but their year-to-year decline was mostly not significant. Cognitive abilities were also best in the resident's first year, but first-, second-, and third-year cognitive scores were not significantly different. The authors compared the residents' dementia progression rate to the true rate of natural disease progression. This study, like others on small homelike settings, suggests that appropriate homelike environments maintain people with dementia at an optimum level for longer. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-151022210 A |
| Classmark | KW: LHB: 54: EA: DA: 4C: 3J: 7S |
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