✦ LIBER ✦
Integrity-promoting care of demented nursing home patients: Psychological and biochemical changes
✍ Scribed by Görel Bråne; Ingvar Karlsson; Mona Kihlgren; Astrid Norberg
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1989
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 554 KB
- Volume
- 4
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0885-6230
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✦ Synopsis
The effects of integrity-promoting care in a nursing home with demented patients were studied. In one ward the staff were given special training. The results showed that the treatment induced a reduction of distractability, confusion, anxiety and depressed mood, and improvement in motor performance. At the same time the cerebrospinal fluid concentrations of somatostatin increased.
KEY WORDS-Arginine vasopressin, cerebrospinal fluid, corticotropin-releasing factor, dementia, dementia rating scale, depression scale for dementia, nursing care, somatostatin, staff training.