## Abstract ## Objective To investigate nursing home residents with psychiatric diagnoses who wander and who are not diagnosed with dementia. ## Method A national crossβsectional study was conducted in a male Veterans Administration Nursing Home Care Unit population using a retrospective review
Resident characteristics associated with wandering in nursing homes
β Scribed by Dan K. Kiely; John N Morris; Donna L Algase
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2000
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 70 KB
- Volume
- 15
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0885-6230
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