The value of social attributes of stimuli for promoting engagement in persons with dementia

Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease

Volumn 198, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 586-592

  Cohen Mansfield, Jiska ^a,b,c   Thein, Khin ^a   Dakheel Ali, Maha ^a   Regier, Natalie G ^a   Marx, Marcia S ^a  

^a Research Institute on Aging   (United States)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^c GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

comprehensive process model of engagement; Dementia; engagement; nursing home; social stimuli

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; DEMENTIA; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERRATER RELIABILITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NURSING HOME PATIENT; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; SOCIAL ATTITUDE; SOCIAL ENGAGEMENT; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SOCIAL STIMULUS; STIMULUS;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ATTENTION; ATTITUDE; COMPREHENSION; DEMENTIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; NURSING HOMES; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; QUALITY OF LIFE; SOCIAL ADJUSTMENT; SOCIOMETRIC TECHNIQUES;

EID: 77955620023     PISSN: 00223018     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/NMD.0b013e3181e9dc76     Document Type: Article

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