The impact of past and present preferences on stimulus engagement in nursing home residents with dementia
| Autor: | Maha Dakheel-Ali, Khin Thein, Jiska Cohen-Mansfield, Marcia S. Marx |
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| Rok vydání: | 2010 |
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medicine.medical_treatment Animal-assisted therapy Stimulus (physiology) Article Developmental psychology Pet therapy Surveys and Questionnaires Humans Medicine Dementia Aged Aged 80 and over Motivation Maryland business.industry Patient Preference Middle Aged medicine.disease Patient preference Nursing Homes Psychiatry and Mental health Quality of Life HUBzero Female Observational study Geriatrics and Gerontology Pshychiatric Mental Health business Nursing homes Gerontology Social psychology |
| Zdroj: | Aging & Mental Health. 14:67-73 |
| ISSN: | 1364-6915 1360-7863 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/13607860902845574 |
| Popis: | We examined engagement with stimuli in 193 nursing home residents with dementia. We hypothesized that activities and stimuli based on a person's past and current preferences would result in more engagement than other activities/stimuli.The expanded version of the self-identity questionnaire [Cohen-Mansfield, J., Golander, H.Arheim, G. (2000)] was used to determine participants' past/present interests (as reported by relatives) in the following areas: art, music, babies, pets, reading, television, and office work. We utilized the observational measurement of engagement (Cohen-Mansfield, J., Dakheel-Ali, M.,Marx, M.S. (2009).Analysis revealed that residents with current interests in music, art, and pets were more engaged by stimuli that reflect these interests than residents without these interests.Our findings demonstrate the utility of determining a person's preferences for stimuli in order to predict responsiveness. Lack of prediction for some stimuli may reflect differences between past preferences and activities that are feasible in the present. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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