Characteristics of Activities for Persons With Dementia at the Mild, Moderate, and Severe Stages.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

To understand activity in dementia care, we examine relationships of disease stage with types and characteristics of meaningful activities (cueing needs, help with initiation, and recommended engagement time) provided in a home-based intervention trial designed to reduce behavioral symptoms.

Design and methods

Data involved 158 activity prescriptions or written documents detailing prescribed activities, cueing needs, and engagement goals designed by occupational therapists for 56 families. Activities were categorized as arts and crafts, exercise/physical, cognitive, music/entertainment, manipulation/sensory/sorting, family/social/ reminiscence, and domestic/homemaking. Bivariate correlations examined relationships of activity categories and characteristics with disea

SUBMITTER: Regier NG 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5881689 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature