Thesis
Environmental Approaches for Controlling Agitation in Older Adults With Dementia: A Review
Washington State University
Master of Nursing (MN), Washington State University
05/2001
Handle:
https://hdl.handle.net/2376/3750
Abstract
Dementia is a mental disorder and a clinical syndrome whose essential feature is the development of cognitive deficits including memory impairment. The number of people in the United States aged 65 and older with dementia is expected to increase to\nalmost three million by the year 2015. Psychiatric and behavioral disturbances represent a significant problem; these occur in up to 90% of patients with dementia at some point in the course oftheir illness. Regulations under the 1987 Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act (OBRA-87) limited the use of psychotropic medication use to control behavior, in residents of long-term care facilities requiring quantitative documentation of a trial of nonpharmaoclogic alternatives. This paper will review current literature on means of controlling agitation with nonpharmacologic alternatives, including environmental methods, such as use of stimulus including activities, colors and signposts, visual barriers, nursing milieu management, use of bright light treatment, individualized music, and simulated presence therapy.
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- Title
- Environmental Approaches for Controlling Agitation in Older Adults With Dementia: A Review
- Creators
- Shelley L. Geil
- Contributors
- Elizabeth Le Cuyer-Maus (Advisor)
- Awarding Institution
- Washington State University
- Academic Unit
- Research Projects, College of Nursing
- Theses and Dissertations
- Master of Nursing (MN), Washington State University
- Publisher
- Washington State University; Spokane, Washington
- Identifiers
- 99900591040001842
- Copyright
- http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/us; Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 United States (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 US)
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Thesis