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| The effect of a supervised walking program on wandering among residents with dementia | | Author(s) | David W Thomas, Carolyn Glogoski, Jodi Johnson |
| Journal title | Activities, Adaptation & Aging, vol 30, no 4, 2006 |
| Pages | pp 1-14 |
| Source | http://www.tandfonline.com |
| Keywords | Walking ; Memory and Reminiscence ; Dementia ; Wandering ; Residents [care homes] ; Nursing homes ; Evaluation ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | 13 nursing home residents with dementia of Alzheimer's type (DAT) who were classified as wanderers were evaluated on wandering frequency using an instantaneous time-sampling recording technique before, during and after a supervised walking intervention had been conducted. A descriptive analysis revealed that a walking intervention had minimal impact on overall wandering frequency. However, a sub-grouping of wanderers based on cognitive level demonstrated a more pronounced effect among early to middle stage dementia wanderers (pre 24%, during 17%, post 25%), whereas the middle to late dementia wanderers showed virtually no difference (pre 45%, during 46%, post 47%) in self-initiated ambulatory behaviour. The authors suggest that working memory differences between the two sub-sets of wanderers was most attributable to the effectiveness of the walking intervention. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-070703201 A |
| Classmark | HSA: DB: EA: EPC: KX: LHB: 4C: 7T |
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