Modifying Repetitive Verbalizations of Community-Dwelling Patients with AD

Reports on behavior management training given to seven caregivers of a home-dwelling spouse with Alzheimer's disease. Results reveal that trained caregivers were successful at decreasing patient repetitions using written cues. Patients of control subjects showed no systematic changes in behavio...

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Published inThe Gerontologist Vol. 37; no. 1; p. 30
Main Author Bourgeois, Michelle S
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published United States 01.02.1997
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Summary:Reports on behavior management training given to seven caregivers of a home-dwelling spouse with Alzheimer's disease. Results reveal that trained caregivers were successful at decreasing patient repetitions using written cues. Patients of control subjects showed no systematic changes in behavioral disturbances. Intervention effects lasted for 16 weeks or longer. (RJM)
ISSN:0016-9013
DOI:10.1093/geront/37.1.30