ABSTRACT
When nursing home residents with dementia are unable to locate their own rooms, it often creates problems for staff and other residents. The impact of placing two external memory aids outside participants' bedrooms was evaluated by using a multiple-baseline design experiment. Three female special care unit (SCU) residents with severe Alzheimer's disease (MMSE = 5.7) participated in the study. Results showed that a combination of a portrait-type photograph of the participant as a young adult and a sign stating the resident's name increased room finding by over 50 percent with all three participants. Room finding stabilized at 100 percent accuracy for all participants within a few days of implementing the environmental intervention.
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Alzheimer Disease/psychology , Cues , Memory Disorders/therapy , Photic Stimulation , Aged , Aged, 80 and over , Female , Humans , Memory Disorders/diagnosis , Memory Disorders/epidemiology , Neuropsychological Tests , Observer VariationABSTRACT
A glucose-negative group B strain of Neisseria meningitidis isolated from a meningitis case is described. A brief review of Neisseria identification procedures is also presented.
