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Behavioural symptoms in the institutionalized elderly—relationship to dementia

✍ Scribed by Dr. Birgitta Nösman; Gösta Bucht; Sture Eriksson; P. O. Sandman

Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
1993
Tongue
English
Weight
539 KB
Volume
8
Category
Article
ISSN
0885-6230

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✦ Synopsis

A proportion of patients in long-term care institutions have behavioural symptoms that increase the physical and psychiatric workload of those caring for them. We performed a cross-sectional study in order to assess the prevalence of behavioural symptoms in patients in various types of long-stay institutions. In addition, we studied behavioural patterns to find predictors for behavioural symptoms. Prevalence and pattern of behavioural symptoms were studied in 1350 patients in the long-stay institutions in the county of Umei using Gottfries and Gottfries Psychogeriatric and Sandman-Adolfsson's Multi-Dimensional Dementia Assessment Scales. The patients were in a psychogeriatric unit, a somatic long-stay unit, eight nursing homes and 15 homes for the aged with a total number of 1403 beds. Behavioural symptoms were found in 65% of the patients and were classified into six syndromes: escape, aggression, restlessness, wandering, regression and verbally disruptive behaviour.

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