Environmental issues related to visibility and consumption of food in an Alzheimer's diseasee unit
Kevan H. Namazi, Beth DiNatale Johnson
Bok Engelsk 1992
| Utgitt | 1992
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| Omfang | 5 s.
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| Opplysninger | Abstract: The importance of food and food choices as a physical, social and psychological component of well-being is well documented. However these issues have not been systematically examined with the cognitively disabled. This study explores how presentation of food and snacks can encourage AD patients in the early and middle stages of the disease to independently satisfy hunger and thirst. Neither visible nor accessible refrigerators greatly increased the incidences of resident independence in snacking. results suggest that residents' inbility to select snacks independently may be inadvertently hampered by caregivers' perceptions of excess disability.
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