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Evaluating the caregiver's intervention in the elder's task performance
— capacity versus actual behaviour | | Author(s) | Terry Fulmer, Barry Gurland |
| Journal title | International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, vol 12, no 9, September 1997 |
| Pages | pp 920-925 |
| Keywords | Dementia ; Cognitive processes ; Self care capacity ; Drugs ; Family care ; Evaluation ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | As an older person's functional impairment increases, so in general does the tendency for the caregiver to intervene in the older person's daily activities. To a certain extent, such intervention is necessary to compensate for the older person's loss of independent ability, and without such intervention, adverse outcomes are possible. The need for intervention is usually clear-cut for advanced dementia, but less clear for those who are just beginning to show signs of cognitive decline. This study looked at whether the discrepancy between capacity for self-medication administration and actual self-administration behaviour is greater for those with poorer cognitive functioning. The Medication Management Test (MMT) was used with 51 cognitively impaired and 74 cognitively normal older people, who were stratified by level of cognitive status. The highly significant concordance between MMT score and caregivers' report of medication administration supports the expectation that capacity is influenced by cognitive status. In those discordant cases, further information is needed to interpret help in medication administration as excessive or insufficient intervention. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-980827267 A |
| Classmark | EA: DA: CA: LLD: P6:SJ: 4C: 7T |
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