Non-pharmacological, multicomponent group therapy in patients with degenerative dementia: a 12-month randomzied, controlled trial

BMC Medicine

Volumn 9, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Graessel, Elmar ^a   Stemmer, Renate ^b   Eichenseer, Birgit ^a   Pickel, Sabine ^a   Donath, Carolin ^a   Kornhuber, Johannes ^a   Luttenberger, Katharina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^b MAINZ UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Germany)

Author keywords

Dementia; Group therapy; Non pharmacological intervention; Nursing home; Rct

Indexed keywords

AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE ASSESSMENT SCALE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DEMENTIA; DISEASE SEVERITY; ERLANGEN TEST OF ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MAKS THERAPY; MALE; NAMED INVENTORIES, QUESTIONNAIRES AND RATING SCALES; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SINGLE BLIND PROCEDURE; THERAPY; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; GERMANY; GROUP THERAPY; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; METHODOLOGY; MULTICENTER STUDY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NURSING HOME; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; FEMALE; GERMANY; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NURSING HOMES; PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PSYCHOTHERAPY, GROUP; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SINGLE-BLIND METHOD; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 82355186474     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17417015     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1741-7015-9-129     Document Type: Article

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