Assessing dressing ability in dementia: Behavioral assessment offers a practical approach that can reveal abilities and disabilities and provide direction for intervention

Geriatric Nursing

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 107-111

  Heacock, Patricia R ^a   Beck, Cornelia M ^a   Souder, Elaine ^a   Mercer, Susan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOR MEDICAL SCIENCES   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS AT LITTLE ROCK   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CLOTHING; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DEMENTIA; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; NURSING; NURSING ASSESSMENT;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; AGED; CLOTHING; DEMENTIA; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HUMANS; NURSING ASSESSMENT;

EID: 0031135050     PISSN: 01974572     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0197-4572(97)90025-2     Document Type: Article

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