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| Gender and interactions between care staff and elderly nursing home residents with dementia | | Author(s) | James Lindesay, Derek Skea |
| Journal title | International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, vol 12, no 3,, March 1997 |
| Pages | pp 344-348 |
| Keywords | Dementia ; Care home staff ; Sexual equality ; Social interaction ; Nursing homes ; Social surveys. |
| Annotation | The Quality of Interactions Schedule was used to explore the relationship between gender and the interactions of care staff and older people with dementia in residential care in a long-term care unit. Male residents initiated significantly more interactions with staff than female residents, but they did not initiate interactions with female staff more often than with male staff. Women did not initiate any interactions with female staff. Female staff initiated more interactions with residents than did male staff. Both male and female staff initiated a higher proportion of interactions with male residents than with female residents. These findings suggest that gender may be a significant factor determining the rate of interactions between staff and residents in residential care, but further studies are required to confirm this in other settings. |
| Accession Number | CPA-970807227 A |
| Classmark | EA: QRM: TM8: TMA: LHB: 3F |
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