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- Title
Investigating the causes of behaviours that challenge in people with dementia.
- Authors
Keady, John; Jones, Lesley
- Abstract
Nurses are the main providers of care to older people and to people with dementia in a variety of settings, including acute hospitals. Behaviours that challenge in people with dementia, such as agitation, aggression and 'resistiveness', can best be understood as a form of communication based on a person's perceived and/or actual unmet need(s). This article explores ways of understanding behaviours that challenge and contains a composite case study of 'Frank', a person with severe dementia who has been admitted to an NHS inpatient mental health assessment ward. A three-step approach to investigate, formulate and personalise a range of interventions is shared (clue finding; motive identifying; and formulating, applying and evaluating interventions) together with ways of intervening in behaviours that challenge.
- Subjects
UNITED Kingdom; OLDER people; AGGRESSION (Psychology); ALZHEIMER'S disease; DEMENTIA; DIAGNOSIS; FAMILIES; GERIATRIC nursing; HEALTH care teams; MEDICAL protocols; NURSING practice; NURSING assessment; NURSING records; AGITATION (Psychology); SEVERITY of illness index; SYMPTOMS
- Publication
Nursing Older People, 2010, Vol 22, Issue 9, p25
- ISSN
1472-0795
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.7748/nop2010.11.22.9.25.c8061