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| The impact of validation group therapy on nursing home residents with dementia | | Author(s) | Ronald W Toseland, Manfred Diehl, Kurt Freeman |
| Journal title | Journal of Applied Gerontology, vol 16, no 1, March 1997 |
| Pages | pp 31-50 |
| Keywords | Dementia ; Therapy ; Patients [nursing homes] ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | The effectiveness of validation group therapy for reducing problem behaviours, use of physical restraints, and use of psychotropic medications, and for increasing positive social interactions and psychosocial well-being in nursing home residents with dementia was examined in this study. In four skilled-care nursing homes, 88 residents with dementia were randomly assigned to a group receiving validation therapy (VT), a social contact (SC) group, or a usual care (UC) control group, and were assessed at baseline, 3 months, and 1 year. The nursing staff reported that VT participants showed less physically and verbally aggressive behaviour and were not as depressed as residents in the SC or UC group. VT was not effective, however, in reducing the use of physical restraints or the use of psychotropic medications, and it was less effective than SC or UC in reducing physically non-aggressive problem behaviours. (AKM). |
| Accession Number | CPA-981015214 A |
| Classmark | EA: LO: LHB:LF: 7T |
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