✦ LIBER ✦
Wandering: A short report on coping strategies adopted by informal carers
✍ Scribed by Penny Dodds
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1994
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 488 KB
- Volume
- 9
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0885-6230
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✦ Synopsis
Abstract
Wandering is common in people with dementia. It is one of the behaviours that unpaid carers who are relatives find most difficult to cope with when caring for people with dementia at home. Six carers were interviewed using a descriptive typology of wandering devised by Hope and Fairburn (1990). The aim of the study was to establish the types of wandering behaviour carers experienced, how they dealt with this behaviour and what they did to modify it.