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Wandering: A short report on coping strategies adopted by informal carers
Author(s) -
Dodds Penny
Publication year - 1994
Publication title -
international journal of geriatric psychiatry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.28
H-Index - 129
eISSN - 1099-1166
pISSN - 0885-6230
DOI - 10.1002/gps.930090910
Subject(s) - typology , dementia , coping (psychology) , psychology , gerontology , psychiatry , medicine , sociology , disease , pathology , anthropology
Wandering is common in people with dementia. It is one of the behaviours that unpaid carers who are relatives find most difficult to cope with when caring for people with dementia at home. Six carers were interviewed using a descriptive typology of wandering devised by Hope and Fairburn (1990). The aim of the study was to establish the types of wandering behaviour carers experienced, how they dealt with this behaviour and what they did to modify it.