Engagement in persons with dementia: The concept and its measurement

American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 299-307

  Cohen Mansfield, Jiska ^a,b,c   Dakheel Ali, Maha ^a   Marx, Marcia S ^a  

^a Charles E Smith Life Communities   (United States)

^b GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Dementia; Engagement; Environment attributes; Nursing home residents; Person attributes; Stimulus attributes

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DEMENTIA; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MUSIC; NURSING HOME; PET ANIMAL; PSYCHOMETRY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL INTERACTION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VIDEORECORDING; AFFECT; BOREDOM; CLINICAL TRIAL; METHODOLOGY; MOTIVATION; OBSERVER VARIATION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL;

AFFECT; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BOREDOM; DEMENTIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; MOTIVATION; NURSING HOMES; OBSERVER VARIATION; PSYCHOMETRICS;

EID: 65649149037     PISSN: 10647481     EISSN: 15457214     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/JGP.0b013e31818f3a52     Document Type: Article

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