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- Title
Volunteers Adding Life in Dementia: A Case Series of Volunteer Visits to Reduce Behavioral Symptoms of Dementia in Long-Term Care.
- Authors
Seitz, Dallas P.; Knuff, Amber; Prorok, Jeanette; Le Clair, Ken; Gill, Sudeep S.
- Abstract
A letter to the editor is presented which addresses the claim that volunteer visits are a feasible way of providing personalized nonpharmacological interventions for older dementia patients residing in long-term care facilities, and it mentions the efforts to reduce patients' behavioral symptoms.
- Subjects
UNITED States; VISITING the sick; DEMENTIA patients; VOLUNTEER workers in medical care; PSYCHOLOGY; NURSING care facilities; TREATMENT of dementia; BEHAVIOR modification; DEMENTIA; CASE studies; NEUROLOGIC manifestations of general diseases; PSYCHOLOGICAL tests; QUESTIONNAIRES; RECREATIONAL therapy; RESEARCH funding; VOLUNTEERS; DESCRIPTIVE statistics; SYMPTOMS; OLD age
- Publication
Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, 2016, Vol 64, Issue 1, p220
- ISSN
0002-8614
- Publication type
Letter to the Editor
- DOI
10.1111/jgs.13904