Successful ingredients in the SMILE study: Resident, staff, and management factors influence the effects of humor therapy in residential aged care

American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry

Volumn 22, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 1427-1437

  Brodaty, Henry ^a   Low, Lee Fay ^a   Liu, Zhixin ^a   Fletcher, Jennifer ^a   Roast, Joel ^a   Goodenough, Belinda ^a   Chenoweth, Lynn ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Aged care; dementia; humor therapy

Indexed keywords

AGED; AGITATION; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; COHEN MANSFIELD AGITATION INVENTORY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNELL SCALE FOR DEPRESSION IN DEMENTIA; DEPRESSION; DISEASE SEVERITY; ELDERLY CARE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL STATUS; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HUMAN; HUMOR; HUMOR THERAPY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MINI INTERNATIONAL NEUROPSYCHIATRIC INTERVIEW; NURSING HOME; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PROXY RATED QUALITY OF LIFE IN DEMENTIA POPULATION SCALE; PSYCHOSOCIAL CARE; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUALITY OF LIFE ASSESSMENT; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SOCIALIZATION; THERAPY; WITHDRAWAL SUBSCALE OF MULTIDIMENSIONAL OBSERVATION SCALE FOR ELDERLY SUBJECTS; ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE; DEMENTIA; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HOME FOR THE AGED; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PATIENT CARE; PROCEDURES; PSYCHOMOTOR AGITATION; SINGLE BLIND PROCEDURE; SOCIAL PARTICIPATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; DEMENTIA; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HOMES FOR THE AGED; HUMANS; LAUGHTER THERAPY; MALE; NURSING HOMES; PATIENT CARE MANAGEMENT; PSYCHOMOTOR AGITATION; SINGLE-BLIND METHOD; SOCIAL PARTICIPATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84928214081     PISSN: 10647481     EISSN: 15457214     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jagp.2013.08.005     Document Type: Article

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