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| Correlates of disruptive behavior in severely cognitively impaired nursing home residents | | Author(s) | Cornelia Beck, Lori Frank, Neale R Chumbler, Patricia O'Sullivan |
| Journal title | The Gerontologist, vol 38, no 2, April 1998 |
| Pages | pp 189-198 |
| Keywords | Behaviour disorders ; Aggression ; Dementia ; Patients [nursing homes] ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | Problem behaviours are common in nursing home residents, particularly in those with cognitive impairment. This US study explored the relationship between selected individual characteristics and disruptive behaviour in nursing home residents with a moderate to severe cognitive impairment and documented history of disruptive behaviour. Data was gathered from 88 nursing home residents over 11 months. Behaviours were placed into four categories: physically aggressive; physically non-aggressive; vocally agitated; and vocally aggressive. Relationships between the categories and demographic, cognitive, and health variables were examined. Results showed that cognitive status and selected demographic variables were associated with the behaviour categories; adding health variables did not improve prediction. Lower cognitive status was associated with more disruptive behaviours. The findings suggest that cognitive status, but not health variables, predicts disruptive behaviours in nursing home residents with dementia. (AKM). |
| Accession Number | CPA-980716405 A |
| Classmark | EP: EPB: EA: LHB:LF: 7T |
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