## Abstract ## Background Assessment of behavior problems in elderly persons with dementia is important for understanding and managing those behaviors. The most common method for assessing agitation is the use of informant ratings; however, these ratings may be affected by staff bias, inaccurate o
Correlation between actigraphy and nurses' observation of activity in dementia
โ Scribed by Guy Nagels; Sebastiaan Engelborghs; Ellen Vloeberghs; Willy Lemmens; Barbara A. Pickut; Peter Paul De Deyn
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2006
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 80 KB
- Volume
- 22
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0885-6230
- DOI
- 10.1002/gps.1647
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