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Basic care of demented patients living in institutions
Author(s) -
LIUKKONEN ARJA
Publication year - 1992
Publication title -
journal of clinical nursing
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.94
H-Index - 102
eISSN - 1365-2702
pISSN - 0962-1067
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2702.1992.tb00430.x
Subject(s) - interview , dementia , gesture , psychology , nursing homes , nursing care , activities of daily living , nursing , medicine , psychiatry , sociology , computer science , disease , pathology , anthropology , computer vision
Summary• This paper looks at the basic care of demented patients living in institutions and the distinctive characteristics of those patients. • The data included in the study were collected by observing basic care situations and interviewing practising nurses. • The nurses tended to look at demented patients chiefly in terms of the abilities they had lost and the disturbance they caused; less attention was given to their remaining faculties, such as their sense of humour and their ability to enjoy things and to establish contact through gestures and physical touching. • Five models of nursing activity were identified: rejective, routinized, robot‐like, cassette‐like, and skilful. • Nurses concentrated more on obligatory daily activities than on the individual needs of demented patients, the special characteristics of dementia, or encouraging spontaneous activity among demented patients.