Persons with mild or moderate Alzheimer's disease learn to use urine alarms and prompts to avoid large urinary accidents

Research in Developmental Disabilities

Volumn 32, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1998-2004

  Lancioni, Giulio E ^a   Singh, Nirbhay N ^b   O'Reilly, Mark F ^c   Sigafoos, Jeff ^d   Bosco, Andrea ^a   Zonno, Nadia ^e   Badagliacca, Francesco ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARI   (Italy)

^b American Health and Wellness Institute   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^d VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON   (New Zealand)

^e ISPE Alzheimer Residential Center   (Italy)

Author keywords

Alzheimer's disease; Prompts; Self initiated toileting; Urinary accidents; Urinary alarms

Indexed keywords

AGED; ALARM MONITORING; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MICTURITION; QUESTIONNAIRE; REARING; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; URINE; VALIDATION PROCESS; VIBRATION;

AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; BEHAVIOR THERAPY; CLINICAL ALARMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEARNING; MALE; SELF EFFICACY; SENSORY AIDS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TOILET TRAINING; URINARY INCONTINENCE;

EID: 79958291360     PISSN: 08914222     EISSN: 18733379     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ridd.2011.04.011     Document Type: Article

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