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| The effects of a psychomotor activation programme for use in groups of cognitively impaired people in homes for the elderly | | Author(s) | Marijke Hopman-Rock, Patricia G M Staats, Erwin C P M Tak |
| Journal title | International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, vol 14, no 8, August 1999 |
| Pages | pp 633-642 |
| Keywords | Dementia ; Assessment procedures for mental patients ; Behaviour ; Care homes ; Nursing homes ; Netherlands. |
| Annotation | In the Netherlands, although most cognitively impaired older people are cared for at home by family caregivers, people with cognitive impairment spend about 25% of their life, after the illness has developed, in residential care or nursing homes. Group care projects have been developed as alternatives to nursing home care; and groups usually comprise 6-12 psychogeriatric patients with different types of dementia, behavioural problems and disabilities in daily living. The Psychomotor Activation Programme (PAP) was developed by the Free University of Amsterdam, and aims to help patients with dementia to cope with changes they encounter as a consequence of the disease. This article reports an evaluation of PAP as regards its effects on behaviour and cognition; 134 subjects (72 in the experimental group, 62 controls) began the study, 42 of whom dropped out. The PAP was found to stabilise cognitive performance and to have some beneficial effects on behaviour. Positive findings were supported by a simultaneously conducted process evaluation. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-990825287 A |
| Classmark | EA: DA:4C: DM: KW: LHB: 76H |
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