Degree of ambulation and factors associated with the median distance moved per day in Alzheimer's disease patients

The Integrated Circuit tag monitoring system became available to measure wandering in terms of the distance moved by dementia patients. The purposes of the study were to describe degree of ambulation in patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD) and to examine factors associated with the distance m...

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Published inInternational journal of nursing practice Vol. 19; no. S3; pp. 56 - 63
Main Authors Nishikata, Shiori, Yamakawa, Miyae, Shigenobu, Kazue, Suto, Shunji, Makimoto, Kiyoko
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Australia Blackwell Publishing Ltd 01.09.2013
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Aged
Alzheimer Disease - physiopathology
Alzheimer's disease
Cognition & reasoning
Cognitive functioning
Demographics
Female
Hospitals
Humans
Informed consent
Japan
Male
Middle Aged
monitoring
Nursing
objective measurement
Regression analysis
Risk factors
Walking
Wandering
Japan
Osaka Japan
objective measurement
risk factors
monitoring
Alzheimer's disease
wandering
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Summary:The Integrated Circuit tag monitoring system became available to measure wandering in terms of the distance moved by dementia patients. The purposes of the study were to describe degree of ambulation in patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD) and to examine factors associated with the distance moved. AD patients were recruited at a dementia care unit in Asakayama Hospital, Osaka, Japan. The monitoring system generated the distance moved per day. Demographic and clinical data were ed from medical records. Mini‐Mental State Examination was used to measure cognitive function. A multiple linear regression was used to predict the distance moved per day. The research was approved by the ethics committee of the university and the hospital, and written informed consent was obtained from the patients' proxies. Majority of the AD subjects monitored had moderate to advance stage of dementia. Patients’ age and cognitive function were predictors of the median distance moved/day, and these two variables explained almost half of the variance. Older age and lower cognitive function were associated with reduced median distance moved per day in AD patients.
Bibliography:ArticleID:IJN12174
Japan's Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology - No. 20791766
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ISSN:1322-7114
1440-172X
DOI:10.1111/ijn.12174