Temporal patterning of agitation and stressors associated with agitation: Case profiles to illustrate the progressively lowered stress threshold model

Journal of the American Psychiatric Nurses Association

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 215-222

  Gerdner, Linda A ^a   Buckwalter, Kathleen C ^b   Hall, Geri Richards ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA COLLEGE OF NURSING   (United States)

Author keywords

Agitation; Dementia; Progressively lowered stress threshold model; Stress

Indexed keywords

EID: 26444477351     PISSN: 10783903     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1078390305281178     Document Type: Article

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