Heeding the behavioral message of elders with dementia in day care.
Embodied language is unity of bodily, linguistic, and behavioral descriptors, expressed as health. Disagreement behavior, client unwillingness to respond as requested when uncomfortable in a situation, occurs in elders with dementia. Case study analysis suggests that agitation/aggression may be avoided if disagreement behavior is recognized as a message of discomfort.
Ito
Mio
M
Human Care Research Team, Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Gerontology, Tokyo, Japan. mioitoh@yahoo.co.jp
Takahashi
Ryutaro
R
Liehr
Patricia
P
D000368:Aged; D000374:Aggression / Q000523:psychology; D001007:Anxiety / Q000523:psychology; D017028:Caregivers; D003631:Day Care, Medical; D003704:Dementia / Q000523:psychology / Q000628:therapy*; D006694:Holistic Health; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009723:Nurse-Patient Relations