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Elder-Clowning in Long-Term Dementia Care: Results of a Pilot Study

...expressive modalities such as song, musical instruments, and dance to individualize resident engagement. MEASUREMENTS: Primary outcomes were BPSD measured using the the NPI-NH, quality of life measured using Dementia Care...

Keeping up health promotion practices in specialized day care units for people with dementia

...Background: Health promotion practices hold promises for elderly individuals’ quality of life. This article shows that such practices can be promoted in specialized day care units for individuals with...

Effectiveness of cognitive training for Chinese elderly in Hong Kong

...improving the cognitive function and quality of life (QoL) for local community-dwelling Chinese older adults. A total of 200 subjects were recruited from 20 different district elderly community centers (DECCs)....

Learning to live with a loved one with mild cognitive impairment: effectiveness of a waiting list controlled trial of a group intervention on significant others’ sense of competence and well-being

...a waiting list, thus serving as their own control group. Also, the significant others rated their sense of competence, well-being, distress, acceptance, helplessness, and awareness. Quantitative data analysis did not...

The impact of past and present preferences on stimulus engagement in nursing home residents with dementia

...in more engagement than other activities/stimuli. Method: 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...

The Comprehensive Process Model of Engagement

...social stimuli, inanimate social stimuli, a reading stimulus, manipulative stimuli, a music stimulus, task and work-related stimuli, and two different self-identity stimuli. Results: All stimuli elicited significantly greater engagement in...

Effects of a psychological intervention in a primary health care center for caregivers of dependent relatives: a randomized trial

...and training in self-help techniques) or to a control group (care as usual). CG mental health (General Health Questionnaire [GHQ-12]), dysfunctional thoughts about caregiving, quality of life, and burden were...

Physical activity program for patients with dementia and their relative caregivers: randomized clinical trial in Primary Health Care (AFISDEMyF study)

...with dementia: ADAS-cog, functional degree and cardiovascular risk. In caregivers: cardiovascular risk, general health and quality of life.; Intervention: For 3 months, participants will receive instructions to do physical activity...

Cognitive function and common mental disorders in older people with vascular and non-vascular disorders: a national survey

...survey participants who were aged 60-74 years (n = 2007). Associations with self-reported vascular and common non-vascular (musculoskeletal, respiratory or gastrointestinal) disorders were compared. Disability (SF-12 physical scale) was considered...

Yogic meditation reverses NF-κB and IRF-related transcriptome dynamics in leukocytes of family dementia caregivers in a randomized controlled trial

...of pro-inflammatory cytokines and decreased IRF1-related transcription of innate antiviral response genes previously observed in healthy individuals confronting a significant life stressor. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2013 APA, all rights...

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