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| Modifying repetitive verbalizations of community-dwelling patients with AD | | Author(s) | Michelle S Bourgeois, Louis D Burgio, Richard Schulz, Scott Beach |
| Journal title | The Gerontologist, vol 37, no 1, February 1997 |
| Pages | pp 30-39 |
| Keywords | Dementia ; Behaviour disorders ; Out-patients ; Living in the community ; Spouses as carers ; Behaviour modification ; Communication skills ; Evaluation ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | Seven caregivers of a home-dwelling spouse with Alzheimer's disease were trained during 12 weekly home visits to implement behaviour management programmes including written cuing procedures in response to repetitive verbalisations. Data from 7 trained caregivers and 7 matched control caregivers who only tracked repetitive behaviour were compared. Trained caregivers were successful at decreasing patient repetitions using written cues. Patients of control subjects showed no systematic changes in behavioural disturbances due to behaviour tracking. Intervention effects lasted 16 weeks or longer, and several caregivers reported applying the cuing intervention to other, non-targeted behaviours. Trained caregivers' perceptions of the efficacy in managing difficult behaviour improved significantly at the 3-month follow-up assessment when programme staff were no longer visiting them weekly. |
| Accession Number | CPA-970702005 A |
| Classmark | EA: EP: LFB: K4: P6:SN: LODM: UO: 4C: 7T |
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