title: Spontaneity in dementia: an analysis of 696 institutionalized elderly patients.
abstract: Activities of daily living (ADL), mental function, spontaneity, emotion and problematic behaviors were compared in elderly patients with hip fracture, hemiplegia, hemiparesis, senile dementia of Alzheimer type and multi-infarct dementia. Osteoarthropathy patients with normal intelligence served as a control group. ADL was most strongly affected by spontaneity, then, by intelligence. The contributions of emotion and problematic behaviors were not very marked.
authors.affiliation: Institution for Handicapped Children Taiyo-no-Sono, Saitama, Japan.
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Katayama
mesh_terms: D000203:Activities of Daily Living; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D003704:Dementia / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007326:Institutionalization; D008297:Male; D012919:Social Behavior